English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 29
Now that very night a band of robbers broke into the inn, and searched the girl, who had no money, and only the letter.
Who acts: band, girl · What happens: break, search, have · To what, where: inn, girl, money
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 (band, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 broke | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 night | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 night | advmod |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broke | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 band | det |
| 6 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broke | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 robbers | case |
| 8 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 band | nmod |
| 9 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 inn | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 inn | det |
| 12 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broke | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 searched | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 searched | cc |
| 15 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 broke | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 searched | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 girl | acl:relcl |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 money | det |
| 22 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 letter | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 letter | cc |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 letter | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 letter | det |
| 27 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 searched | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | a band of robbers | now; night | into the inn result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into inn=Result | |||
| 2 | search | past | a band of robbers not said here | the girl | the letter obl | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent girl=Location | |||
| 3 | have | past | the girl | no money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
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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