English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 25
They are instructed by an old man (like Merlin in “Childe Rowland”) how to rescue their sister, and ultimately succeed.
Who acts: old man · What happens: instruct, rescue, succeed · To what, where: names, sister
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 (old man), 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 | 3 instructed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 instructed | aux:pass |
| 3 | instructed | instruct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 instructed | obl |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 Merlin | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 Merlin | case |
| 10 | Merlin | Merlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 man | appos |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Childe | case |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Childe | punct |
| 13 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Merlin | nmod |
| 14 | Rowland | Rowland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Childe | flat |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Merlin | punct |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 Merlin | punct |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 rescue | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 rescue | mark |
| 19 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 instructed | advcl |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sister | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rescue | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 succeed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 succeed | cc |
| 24 | ultimately | ultimately | ADV | _ | 25 succeed | advmod |
| 25 | succeed | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 instructed | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 instructed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | instruct speech: other | present · passive | a old man | names = name | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | rescue | to-infinitive | a old man not said here | names's sister | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme | ||||
| 3 | succeed | present | a old man not said here | ultimately property | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=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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