English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 34
Three times Childe Wynd urged his men on to row bravely and strong, but each time the Laidly Worm kept it off the shore.
Who acts: Childe, time · What happens: urge, row, keep · To what, where: men, ship
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Childe, time), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 urged | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 urged | nsubj |
| 4 | Wynd | Wynd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Childe | flat |
| 5 | urged | urge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 men | nmod:poss |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 urged | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 row | case |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 row | mark |
| 10 | row | row | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 urged | xcomp |
| 11 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 10 row | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 strong | cc |
| 13 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bravely | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 kept | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 kept | cc |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kept | nsubj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Worm | det |
| 19 | Laidly | Laidly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Worm | compound |
| 20 | Worm | Worm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 time | appos |
| 21 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 urged | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 kept | obj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 shore | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 shore | det |
| 25 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kept | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 urged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | urge | past | Childe | Childe's men | time | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | row not said to happen | to-infinitive | Childe not said here | bravely property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | keep | past | each time | ship | off the shore | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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