English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 30
She would have avoided him, but the king, having caught a sight of her, approached, and what with her beauty and sweet voice, fell desperately in love with her, and soon induced her to marry him.
Who acts: third, king · What happens: avoid, catch, approach, fall, induce, marry · To what, where: prince, sight, love, third
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 (third, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 avoided | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 avoided | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 avoided | aux |
| 4 | avoided | avoid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 avoided | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 approached | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 approached | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 approached | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 caught | punct |
| 11 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 caught | aux |
| 12 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 king | acl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sight | det |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 caught | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sight | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 approached | punct |
| 18 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 avoided | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 what | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 what | cc |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 approached | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 beauty | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 24 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fell | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 voice | cc |
| 26 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 voice | amod |
| 27 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 beauty | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 beauty | punct |
| 29 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 what | acl:relcl |
| 30 | desperately | desperately | ADV | _ | 29 fell | advmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 love | case |
| 32 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fell | obl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 her | case |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 fell | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 induced | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 induced | cc |
| 37 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 induced | advmod |
| 38 | induced | induce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 approached | conj |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 induced | obj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 marry | mark |
| 41 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 induced | advcl |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 marry | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 avoided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avoid | would · perfect | third | prince | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent he=Location | ||||
| 2 | catch | gerund · perfect | the king not said here | a sight of third | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | approach | past | the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | love | with third's beauty and sweet voice; with third; desperately property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | ||||
| 5 | induce | past | the king not said here | third | soon property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 6 | marry | to-infinitive | the king not said here | prince | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 7 | sight | third | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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