English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 44
The old man frowned, saying: “Evil fortune attend ye!”
Who acts: old man, Evil fortune · What happens: frown, say, attend · To what, where: old man, ye · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old man, Evil fortune), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saying | nsubj |
| 4 | frowned | frown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 man | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saying | punct |
| 6 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 attend | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 attend | punct |
| 9 | Evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fortune | amod |
| 10 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attend | nsubj |
| 11 | attend | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 saying | ccomp |
| 12 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 attend | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 saying | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frown | participle | the old man not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | gerund | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | attend in a quote | present | Evil fortune | ye | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ye=Goal |
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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