English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 7
I should add that, on the strength of the reference to Merlin, Jamieson calls Childe Rowland's mother, Queen Guinevere, and introduces references to King Arthur and his Court.
Who acts: I, Jamieson · What happens: add, call, introduce · To what, where: that, mother, references, King Arthur · 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, Jamieson), 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 add | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 add | aux |
| 3 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 add | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 strength | punct |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 strength | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 strength | det |
| 8 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 add | parataxis |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 reference | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 reference | det |
| 11 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 strength | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Merlin | case |
| 13 | Merlin | Merlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 reference | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 calls | punct |
| 15 | Jamieson | Jamieson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 calls | nsubj |
| 16 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 add | parataxis |
| 17 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 mother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | Rowland | Rowland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Childe | flat |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Childe | case |
| 20 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 calls | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Queen | punct |
| 22 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 calls | conj |
| 23 | Guinevere | Guinevere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Queen | flat |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 introduces | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 introduces | cc |
| 26 | introduces | introduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 add | parataxis |
| 27 | references | reference | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 introduces | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Arthur | case |
| 29 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Arthur | compound |
| 30 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 introduces | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Court | cc |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 Court | nmod:poss |
| 33 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Arthur | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 add | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | should | I | that | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | present | Jamieson | Childe's mother | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | introduce | present | references | King Arthur and Childe's Court | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent reference=Patient to arthur=Co-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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