English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 50
(made up from verses), xliii., contain rhymed lines, while xiv., xxii., xxvi., and xxxvii., contain “survivals” of rhymes (“let me come in--chinny chin-chin”; “once again ... come to Spain;” “it is not so--should be so”; “and his lady, him behind”); and x. and xxxii. are rhythmical if not rhyming.
Who acts: xxxvii, Lang notes, survival, lady · What happens: make up, contain, rhyme, let, come in, come · To what, where: xiv, verses, rhymed lines, survivals, Lang notes, chin chin · 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 (xxxvii, Lang notes, survival, lady), 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 | _ | 2 made | punct |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 made | compound:prt |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 verses | case |
| 5 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 made | obl |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 xliii | punct |
| 8 | xliii | xliii | NUM | _ | 2 made | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 contain | punct |
| 11 | contain | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | advcl |
| 12 | rhymed | rhyme | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 lines | amod |
| 13 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 contain | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 xiv | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 xiv | mark |
| 16 | xiv | xiv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 xxii | punct |
| 19 | xxii | xxii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 xxvi | punct |
| 22 | xxvi | xxvi | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 made | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 contain | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 contain | cc |
| 26 | xxxvii | xxxvii | X | Foreign=Yes | 29 contain | nsubj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 xxxvii | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 contain | punct |
| 29 | contain | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | advcl |
| 30 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 survivals | punct |
| 31 | survivals | survival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 contain | obj |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 survivals | punct |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 rhymes | case |
| 34 | rhymes | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 survivals | nmod |
| 35 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 37 let | punct |
| 36 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 let | punct |
| 37 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 contain | parataxis |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 let | obj |
| 39 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 let | xcomp |
| 40 | in | in | ADV | _ | 39 come | advmod |
| 41 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 45 chin | punct |
| 42 | chinny | chinny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 chin | compound |
| 43 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 chin | compound |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 chin | punct |
| 45 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 come | obl |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 let | punct |
| 47 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
| 48 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 come | punct |
| 49 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 50 again | advmod |
| 50 | again | again | ADV | _ | 52 come | advmod |
| 51 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 50 again | punct |
| 52 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | conj |
| 53 | to | to | ADP | _ | 54 Spain | case |
| 54 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 come | obl |
| 55 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
| 56 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
| 57 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 85 rhythmical | punct |
| 58 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 61 so | nsubj |
| 59 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 61 so | cop |
| 60 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 61 so | advmod |
| 61 | so | so | ADV | _ | 85 rhythmical | advmod |
| 62 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 65 so | punct |
| 63 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 65 so | aux |
| 64 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 65 so | cop |
| 65 | so | so | ADV | _ | 85 rhythmical | advmod |
| 66 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 65 so | punct |
| 67 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 71 lady | punct |
| 68 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 71 lady | punct |
| 69 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 71 lady | cc |
| 70 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 71 lady | nmod:poss |
| 71 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 85 rhythmical | nsubj |
| 72 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 73 him | punct |
| 73 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 71 lady | appos |
| 74 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 75 ” | advmod |
| 75 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 73 him | punct |
| 76 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 71 lady | punct |
| 77 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 79 x | punct |
| 78 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 79 x | cc |
| 79 | x | x | NOUN | Number=Sing | 71 lady | conj |
| 80 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 71 lady | punct |
| 81 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 82 xxxii | cc |
| 82 | xxxii | xxxii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 71 lady | conj |
| 83 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 71 lady | punct |
| 84 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 85 rhythmical | cop |
| 85 | rhythmical | rhythmical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 made | xcomp |
| 86 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 88 rhyming | mark |
| 87 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 88 rhyming | advmod |
| 88 | rhyming | rhyme | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 85 rhythmical | advcl |
| 89 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | participle | xiv | verses | xxii obl | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | contain | infinitive | rhymed lines | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot line=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rhyme | participle | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | contain | infinitive | xxxvii | survivals of rhymes | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | let in a quote | infinitive | Lang notes = note | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | come in in a quote | infinitive | Lang notes = note not said here | chin chin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | come in a quote | infinitive | Spain | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to spain=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | not is in a quote | present | survival | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | is in a quote | should | so property | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | is | present | verse's lady and x and xxxii | rhythmical property | tree rules | ||||
| 11 | not rhyme a condition, not said to happen | gerund | verse's lady and x and xxxii not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 12 | survive in a quote | rhymes | nom survival «state 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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