English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 30
So they opened this and read it, and thought it a shame.
Who acts: robbers · What happens: open, read, think · To what, where: this, 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 (robbers), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 opened | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 opened | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 read | cc |
| 6 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 opened | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 read | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 shame | det |
| 13 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | robbers = robber | this | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | read | infinitive | robbers = robber not said here | money | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | robbers = robber not said here | money | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme shame=Attribute |
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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