English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 3
I have Anglicised the Scotticisms, eliminated an unnecessary ox-herd and swine-herd, who lose their heads for directing the Childe, and I have called the Erlkönig's lair the Dark Tower on the strength of the description and of Shakespeare's reference.
Who acts: I, unnecessary ox herd, Shakespeare · What happens: anglicise, eliminate, lose, direct, call, refer · To what, where: Scotticisms, unnecessary ox herd, heads, Childe, lair, strength · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, unnecessary ox herd, Shakespeare), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 Anglicised | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Anglicised | aux |
| 3 | Anglicised | anglicise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Scotticisms | det |
| 5 | Scotticisms | scotticism | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Anglicised | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 eliminated | punct |
| 7 | eliminated | eliminate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Anglicised | conj |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 herd | det |
| 9 | unnecessary | unnecessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 herd | amod |
| 10 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 herd | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ox | punct |
| 12 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eliminated | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 herd | cc |
| 14 | swine | swine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 herd | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 swine | punct |
| 16 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 herd | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lose | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 lose | nsubj |
| 19 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 herd | parataxis |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 heads | nmod:poss |
| 21 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lose | obj |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 directing | mark |
| 23 | directing | direct | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 lose | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Childe | det |
| 25 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 directing | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 called | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 called | cc |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 called | nsubj |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 called | aux |
| 30 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 Anglicised | parataxis |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Erlkönig | det |
| 32 | Erlkönig | Erlkönig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 lair | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 Erlkönig | case |
| 34 | lair | lair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 called | xcomp |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Tower | det |
| 36 | Dark | Dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 Tower | compound |
| 37 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 called | xcomp |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 strength | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 strength | det |
| 40 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 called | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 description | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 description | det |
| 43 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 strength | nmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 reference | cc |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 reference | case |
| 46 | Shakespeare | Shakespeare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 reference | nmod:poss |
| 47 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 46 Shakespeare | case |
| 48 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 description | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Anglicised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | anglicise | present · perfect | I | the Scotticisms | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eliminate | past | I not said here | a unnecessary ox herd and swine herd | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lose | present | a unnecessary ox herd and swine herd | herd's heads | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | direct | gerund | a unnecessary ox herd and swine herd not said here | the Childe | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent childe=Theme | ||||
| 5 | call | present · perfect | I | the Erlkönig's lair | the strength of the description and Shakespeare's reference | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | refer | Shakespeare | nom reference «communication transitive»: poss=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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