English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 16
“Childe Rowland to the Dark Tower came....”
Who acts: Childe Rowland · What happens: come
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Childe Rowland), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 2 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rowland | compound |
| 3 | Rowland | Rowland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Tower | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tower | det |
| 6 | Dark | Dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Tower | compound |
| 7 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rowland | nmod |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | .... | .... | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | Childe Rowland to the Dark Tower | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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