English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 24
The main plot of this is the search of two brothers, Calypha and Thelea, for a lost sister, Delia, who has been bespelled by a sorcerer, Sacrapant (the names are taken from the “Orlando Furioso”).
Who acts: main plot, sorcerer · What happens: be, lose, bespell, take, plot · To what, where: search, lost sister, names, Orlando Furioso, this
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 (main plot, sorcerer), 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 plot | det |
| 2 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 plot | amod |
| 3 | plot | plot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 search | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 plot | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 search | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 search | det |
| 8 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 brothers | case |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 brothers | nummod |
| 11 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 search | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Calypha | punct |
| 13 | Calypha | Calypha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 brothers | appos |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Thelea | cc |
| 15 | Thelea | Thelea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Calypha | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sister | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 sister | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sister | det |
| 19 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 sister | amod |
| 20 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 search | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Delia | punct |
| 22 | Delia | Delia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 sister | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bespelled | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 bespelled | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 bespelled | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 bespelled | aux:pass |
| 27 | bespelled | bespell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 sister | conj |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 sorcerer | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 sorcerer | det |
| 30 | sorcerer | sorcerer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bespelled | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Sacrapant | punct |
| 32 | Sacrapant | Sacrapant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 sorcerer | appos |
| 33 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 37 taken | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 names | det |
| 35 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 taken | aux:pass |
| 37 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 Sacrapant | parataxis |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 Furioso | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Furioso | det |
| 40 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 Furioso | punct |
| 41 | Orlando | Orlando | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Furioso | compound |
| 42 | Furioso | Furioso | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 taken | obl |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 Furioso | punct |
| 44 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 37 taken | punct |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 search | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the main plot of this | the search and a lost sister | of two brothers | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | bespell | present · perfect · passive | a sorcerer | a lost sister | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | present · passive | the names | the Orlando Furioso | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from furioso=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | plot | this | nom plot «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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