English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 6

They had not been long in the Court before they set the king against his own beautiful daughter by false reports.

Who acts: rites · What happens: have, not be, set · To what, where: Court, king

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 (rites), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 long	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 long	cop
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 Court	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Court	det
8	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 long	obl
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 set	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 set	nsubj
11	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 set	obj
14	against	against	ADP	_	18 daughter	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 daughter	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 daughter	amod
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 daughter	amod
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 set	obl
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 reports	case
20	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 reports	amod
21	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 set	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	rites = rite				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	participle			the Court	long property	tree rules
3	set	past	rites = rite	the king		against king's own beautiful daughter; by false reports	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent king=Theme against daughter=Destination

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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