English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 3

And to his dismay, he found that his son would wed a lowly maid that had just been born in a house under the shadow of York Minster.

Who acts: boy, son · What happens: find, wed, bear, dismay, shadow · To what, where: lowly maid, house, York · 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 (boy, son), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 found	cc
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 dismay	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dismay	nmod:poss
4	dismay	dismay	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dismay	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 wed	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 son	nmod:poss
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wed	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 wed	aux
12	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 found	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 maid	det
14	lowly	lowly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 maid	amod
15	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wed	obj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 born	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 born	aux
18	just	just	ADV	_	20 born	advmod
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 born	aux:pass
20	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 maid	acl:relcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 house	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 house	det
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 born	obl
24	under	under	ADP	_	26 shadow	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 shadow	det
26	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 born	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 York	case
28	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 shadow	nmod
29	Minster	Minster	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 York	flat
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	boy			to boy's dismay	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	wed	would	boy's son	a lowly maid			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Patient
3	bear	past · perfect · passive		a lowly maid	a house	under the shadow of York	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	dismay		boy				nom dismay «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
5	shadow			York			nom shadow «state transitive»: of=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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