English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 4
I have likewise suggested a reason why Burd Ellen fell into his power, chiefly in order to introduce a definition of “widershins.”
Who acts: Burd · What happens: suggest, fall, introduce, define · To what, where: I, power, definition, widershins
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 (Burd), 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 | 4 suggested | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 suggested | aux |
| 3 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 4 suggested | advmod |
| 4 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 reason | det |
| 6 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suggested | obj |
| 7 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 fell | advmod |
| 8 | Burd | Burd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | Ellen | Ellen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Burd | flat |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reason | acl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 power | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 power | nmod:poss |
| 13 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 chiefly | punct |
| 15 | chiefly | chiefly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 power | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 order | case |
| 17 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 introduce | mark |
| 19 | introduce | introduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fell | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 definition | det |
| 21 | definition | definition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 introduce | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 widershins | case |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 widershins | punct |
| 24 | widershins | widershin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 definition | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 suggested | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 suggested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | present · perfect · passive | I | likewise property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | Burd | Burd's power | in order | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in order=Location | |||
| 3 | introduce | to-infinitive | Burd not said here | a definition of widershins | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent definition=Patient | ||||
| 4 | define | widershins | nom definition «communication 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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