English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 16
They all noticed her beauty, and one of them said to the Baron: “You can read fates, Baron, whom will she marry, d'ye think?”
Who acts: companions, one, Baron, girl, d'ye · What happens: notice, say, read, marry, think · To what, where: beauty, Baron, fates · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (companions, one, Baron, girl), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 noticed | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 noticed | advmod |
| 3 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 noticed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 one | nmod |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 noticed | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Baron | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Baron | det |
| 14 | Baron | Baron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 read | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 read | punct |
| 17 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 read | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 read | aux |
| 19 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 20 | fates | fate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 read | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Baron | punct |
| 22 | Baron | Baron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 fates | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 marry | punct |
| 24 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 marry | obj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 marry | aux |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 marry | nsubj |
| 27 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 fates | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 think | punct |
| 29 | d'ye | d'ye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 think | nsubj |
| 30 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 read | conj |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 30 think | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | companions = companion | girl's beauty | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | one of companions | the Baron | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to baron=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | read in a quote | can | the Baron = baron | fates | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Topic | ||||
| 4 | marry in a quote | future | girl | fates | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other in a quote | infinitive | d'ye | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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