English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 3
But the king hearing of a lady who had likewise an only daughter, had a mind to marry her for the sake of her riches, though she was old, ugly, hook-nosed, and hump-backed.
Who acts: lady, king hearing, hearing · What happens: have, marry, be, nose, back, hear · To what, where: only daughter, mind, hearing
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 (lady, king hearing, hearing), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hearing | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hearing | compound |
| 4 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lady | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hearing | nmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lady | acl:relcl |
| 10 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 13 daughter | advmod |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 daughter | det |
| 12 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 daughter | amod |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hearing | punct |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 mind | det |
| 17 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 marry | mark |
| 19 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 mind | acl |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 marry | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 sake | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sake | det |
| 23 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 marry | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 riches | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 riches | nmod:poss |
| 26 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sake | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 old | punct |
| 28 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 31 old | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 old | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 old | cop |
| 31 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 had | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 ugly | punct |
| 33 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 old | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 nosed | punct |
| 35 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 nosed | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 hook | punct |
| 37 | nosed | nose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 old | parataxis |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 backed | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 backed | cc |
| 40 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 backed | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 hump | punct |
| 42 | backed | back | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 nosed | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a lady | a only daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the king hearing of a lady | a mind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 3 | marry | to-infinitive | the king hearing of a lady not said here | hearing | for the sake of hearing's riches | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 4 | is | past | hearing | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | hearing not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | nose | participle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | back | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | hear | a lady | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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