English Fairy Tales, The Cauld Lad of Hilton, sentence 9
When you bury a treasure, you scatter over it blood drops of a newly slain kid or lamb, or, better still, bury the animal with the treasure, and a Brownie will watch over it for you, and frighten everybody else away.
Who acts: you, Brownie · What happens: bury, scatter, watch, frighten away · To what, where: treasure, blood drops, animal, everybody
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Cauld Lad of Hilton. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Brownie), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 bury | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 bury | nsubj |
| 3 | bury | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 scatter | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 treasure | det |
| 5 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bury | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bury | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 scatter | nsubj |
| 8 | scatter | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 drops | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 drops | nsubj |
| 11 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drops | compound |
| 12 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 scatter | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 kid | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 kid | det |
| 15 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 17 kid | advmod |
| 16 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kid | compound |
| 17 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drops | nmod |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 lamb | cc |
| 19 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kid | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 better | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 better | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 or | punct |
| 23 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 still | advmod |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 scatter | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bury | punct |
| 26 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 scatter | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 animal | det |
| 28 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bury | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 treasure | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 treasure | det |
| 31 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bury | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 watch | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 watch | cc |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 Brownie | det |
| 35 | Brownie | Brownie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 watch | nsubj |
| 36 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 watch | aux |
| 37 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 scatter | parataxis |
| 38 | over | over | ADP | _ | 39 it | case |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 watch | obl |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 you | case |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 watch | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 frighten | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 frighten | cc |
| 44 | frighten | frighten | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 37 watch | parataxis |
| 45 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 44 frighten | obj |
| 46 | else | else | ADV | _ | 45 everybody | advmod |
| 47 | away | away | ADV | _ | 44 frighten | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 scatter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | present | you | a treasure | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | ||||
| 2 | scatter | present | you | blood drops of a slain kid or lamb | still | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent over drop=Destination | |||
| 3 | bury | infinitive | you not said here | the animal | with the treasure | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | |||
| 4 | watch | future | a Brownie | treasure | for you | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Location for you=Theme | |||
| 5 | frighten away | infinitive | everybody | away property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus everybody=Experiencer |
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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