English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 60
The fairies, etc., steal a child, they help a wanderer to a drink and then disappear into a green hill, they help cottagers with their work at night but disappear if their presence is noticed; human midwives are asked to help fairy mothers, fairy maidens marry ordinary men or girls marry and live with fairy husbands.
Who acts: fairies, human midwives, fairy maidens, ordinary men · What happens: steal, help, disappear, notice, ask, marry · To what, where: child, wanderer, green hill, cottagers, presence, human midwives
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 (fairies, human midwives, fairy maidens, ordinary men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fairies | det |
| 2 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 steal | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 etc. | punct |
| 4 | etc. | etc. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 2 fairies | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fairies | punct |
| 6 | steal | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 child | det |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 steal | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 help | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 help | nsubj |
| 11 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 steal | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wanderer | det |
| 13 | wanderer | wanderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 help | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 drink | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 drink | det |
| 16 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 help | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 disappear | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 disappear | advmod |
| 19 | disappear | disappear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 help | conj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 hill | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hill | det |
| 22 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hill | amod |
| 23 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 disappear | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 help | punct |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 help | nsubj |
| 26 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 help | conj |
| 27 | cottagers | cottager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 help | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 work | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 work | nmod:poss |
| 30 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 help | obl |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 night | case |
| 32 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 help | obl |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 disappear | cc |
| 34 | disappear | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 help | conj |
| 35 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 39 noticed | mark |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 presence | nmod:poss |
| 37 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 noticed | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 noticed | aux:pass |
| 39 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 disappear | advcl |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 asked | punct |
| 41 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 midwives | amod |
| 42 | midwives | midwife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 asked | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 asked | aux:pass |
| 44 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 steal | parataxis |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 help | mark |
| 46 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 asked | xcomp |
| 47 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 mothers | compound |
| 48 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 help | obj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 marry | punct |
| 50 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 maidens | amod |
| 51 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 marry | nsubj |
| 52 | marry | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 asked | parataxis |
| 53 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 men | amod |
| 54 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 marry | nsubj |
| 55 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 56 girls | cc |
| 56 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 men | conj |
| 57 | marry | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 marry | ccomp |
| 58 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 live | cc |
| 59 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 marry | conj |
| 60 | with | with | ADP | _ | 62 husbands | case |
| 61 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 husbands | compound |
| 62 | husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 59 live | obl |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 steal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | present | the fairies and etc. | a child | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location child=Theme | ||||
| 2 | help | present | fairies = fairy | a wanderer | to a drink | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wanderer=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | disappear | infinitive | fairies = fairy not said here | a green hill | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | help | present | fairies = fairy | cottagers | night | with fairies's work | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent cottager=Beneficiary with work=Theme | ||
| 5 | disappear | present | fairies = fairy not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | notice a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | fairies's presence | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | present · passive | human midwives | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | human midwives not said here | fairy mothers | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Beneficiary | ||||
| 9 | marry | present | fairy maidens | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | marry | present | ordinary men or girls | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 11 | live | present | fairy maidens not said here | with fairy husbands | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with husband=Location | ||||
| 12 | work | fairies = fairy | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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