English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 21
Then the Baron knew who she was, and when they went away, he rode back and said to the girl: “Hark ye, girl, I will make your fortune.
Who acts: Baron, clothes, Hark · What happens: know, go away, ride back, say, make · To what, where: girl, fortune · 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 (Baron, clothes, Hark), 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 knew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Baron | det |
| 3 | Baron | Baron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 knew | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 was | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 who | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rode | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rode | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 went | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 rode | advcl |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rode | nsubj |
| 16 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knew | parataxis |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 rode | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 rode | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 girl | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 girl | det |
| 22 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 make | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 make | punct |
| 25 | Hark | Hark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 make | nsubj |
| 26 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 Hark | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 girl | punct |
| 28 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Hark | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 make | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 make | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 make | aux |
| 32 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | conj |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 34 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 make | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the Baron | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer who=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go away | past | clothes | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ride back | past | baron | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | baron not said here | the girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to girl=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | make in a quote | future | Hark | your fortune | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Product |
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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