English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 4
So he sent word home that he was going to bring a new queen to Bamborough Castle.
Who acts: king · What happens: send, go, bring · To what, where: word home, new queen, Bamborough Castle
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 (king), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 home | compound |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 going | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 going | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | aux |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sent | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 bring | mark |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 going | xcomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 queen | det |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 queen | amod |
| 14 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Castle | case |
| 16 | Bamborough | Bamborough | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Castle | compound |
| 17 | Castle | Castle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | king | word home | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | king | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | king not said here | a new queen | Bamborough Castle | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent queen=Theme to castle=Destination |
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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