English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 1
Long before Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, there reigned in the eastern part of England a king who kept his Court at Colchester.
Who acts: king · What happens: reign, keep · To what, where: eastern part, Court, Colchester
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 reigned | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | ADP | _ | 3 Arthur | case |
| 3 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Long | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Knights | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Knights | det |
| 6 | Knights | Knight | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 Arthur | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Table | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Table | det |
| 9 | Round | Round | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Table | compound |
| 10 | Table | Table | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Knights | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Long | punct |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 reigned | advmod |
| 13 | reigned | reign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 part | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 part | det |
| 16 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 part | amod |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reigned | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 England | case |
| 19 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 part | nmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kept | nsubj |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 kept | nsubj |
| 23 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 reigned | parataxis |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 Court | nmod:poss |
| 25 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kept | obj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 Colchester | case |
| 27 | Colchester | Colchester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 kept | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 reigned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reign | participle | the eastern part of England; there | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | a king | king's Court | Colchester | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent court=Theme at colchester=Location |
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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