English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 8
She stood there with blushing cheeks and eye on ground, and said: “O welcome, father dear, to your halls and bowers, and welcome to you my new mother, for all that's here is yours,” and again she offered the keys.
Who acts: queen, that · What happens: stand, say, be, offer · To what, where: welcome, you, yours, keys · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (queen, that), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 stood | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 cheeks | case |
| 5 | blushing | blushing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cheeks | compound |
| 6 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stood | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 eye | cc |
| 8 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cheeks | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 ground | case |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cheeks | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 dear | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 welcome | punct |
| 16 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 17 welcome | discourse |
| 17 | welcome | welcome | INTJ | _ | 20 dear | discourse |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 welcome | punct |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dear | nsubj |
| 20 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 halls | punct |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 halls | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 halls | nmod:poss |
| 24 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 dear | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bowers | cc |
| 26 | bowers | bower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 halls | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 welcome | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 welcome | cc |
| 29 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | obl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 you | case |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 stood | obl |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 mother | nmod:poss |
| 33 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 mother | amod |
| 34 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 yours | punct |
| 36 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 42 yours | mark |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 yours | det:predet |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 yours | nsubj |
| 39 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 yours | cop |
| 40 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 yours | advmod |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 yours | cop |
| 42 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 stood | parataxis |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 offered | cc |
| 46 | again | again | ADV | _ | 48 offered | advmod |
| 47 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 offered | nsubj |
| 48 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | conj |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 keys | det |
| 50 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 offered | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | queen | welcome | you | there | with blushing cheeks on ground and eye | tree rules | |
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | queen not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that | yours | here | tree rules | |||
| 4 | offer | past | queen | the keys | again | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent key=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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