English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 35
Then Childe Wynd ordered the ship to be put about, and the witch-queen thought he had given up the attempt.
Who acts: Childe · What happens: order, put about, give up · To what, where: ship, queen thought
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 ordered | advmod |
| 2 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | Wynd | Wynd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Childe | flat |
| 4 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ship | det |
| 6 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 put | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 put | aux:pass |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ordered | advcl |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 put | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 given | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 given | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 thought | det |
| 14 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 queen | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 witch | punct |
| 16 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thought | compound |
| 17 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 given | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 given | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 given | aux |
| 20 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ordered | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 given | compound:prt |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 attempt | det |
| 23 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 given | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Childe | the ship | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme | |||
| 2 | put about | to-infinitive · passive | Childe not said here | about property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» | ||||
| 3 | give up | past · perfect · passive | the queen thought | tree rules |
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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