English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 6

_ “Childe Harold” and Childe Wynd, _infra_, No. xxxiii.), unless this is some “survival” of Junior Right or “Borough English,” the archaic custom of letting the heirship pass to the youngest son.

Who acts: this, archaic custom, Borough English · What happens: be, let, pass · To what, where: survival, heirship

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 (this, archaic custom, Borough English), 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	_	3 Childe	punct
2	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 Childe	punct
3	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	Harold	Harold	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Childe	flat
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 Childe	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Childe	cc
7	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Childe	conj
8	Wynd	Wynd	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Childe	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 infra	punct
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 infra	punct
11	infra	infra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Childe	parataxis
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 infra	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 No.	punct
14	No.	No.	PROPN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	3 Childe	appos
15	xxxiii	xxxiii	NUM	_	14 No.	flat
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 No.	punct
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 No.	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 survival	punct
19	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	24 survival	mark
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 survival	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 survival	cop
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 survival	det
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 survival	punct
24	survival	survival	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Childe	appos
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 survival	punct
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Junior	case
27	Junior	Junior	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 survival	nmod
28	Right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Junior	xcomp
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 pass	cc
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	42 pass	punct
31	Borough	Borough	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 English	compound
32	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 pass	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 custom	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	37 custom	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 custom	det
36	archaic	archaic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 custom	amod
37	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 English	appos
38	of	of	SCONJ	_	39 letting	mark
39	letting	let	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 custom	acl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 heirship	det
41	heirship	heirship	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 letting	obj
42	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 Right	conj
43	to	to	ADP	_	46 son	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 son	det
45	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	46 son	amod
46	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 pass	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 Childe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	this	some survival	of Junior	tree rules
2	let	gerund	the archaic custom not said here	the heirship		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heirship=Theme
3	pass	infinitive	Borough English		to the youngest son	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to son=Initial_Location

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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