English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 48
So the second and third heads came up, and met with no better treatment than the first.
Who acts: second heads · What happens: come up, meet
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 (second heads), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heads | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 heads | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 third | cc |
| 5 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 second | conj |
| 6 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 met | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 met | cc |
| 11 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 treatment | case |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 treatment | det |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 treatment | amod |
| 15 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 met | obl |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 first | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 first | det |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 met | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | the second heads | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | meet | past | the second heads not said here | with no better treatment; than the first | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with treatment=Co-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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