English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 50
Why, there was the Baron's ring, the very one he had thrown over the cliff at Scarborough.
Who acts: baron · What happens: throw · To what, where: one, cliff
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), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Why | advcl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Baron | det |
| 6 | Baron | Baron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ring | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Baron | case |
| 8 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 one | advmod |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ring | appos |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thrown | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thrown | aux |
| 15 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 one | acl:relcl |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 cliff | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cliff | det |
| 18 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thrown | obl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 Scarborough | case |
| 20 | Scarborough | Scarborough | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 thrown | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past · perfect | baron | the one not said here | the cliff | at Scarborough | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent one=Theme over cliff=Destination |
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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