English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 85
I may add that “Burd” is etymologically the same as “bride” and is frequently used in the early romances for “Lady.”
Who acts: I, that · What happens: add, be, use · To what, where: early romances
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, that), 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 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 add | aux |
| 3 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 same | nsubj |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Burd | punct |
| 6 | Burd | Burd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 same | nsubj |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Burd | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 same | cop |
| 9 | etymologically | etymologically | ADV | _ | 11 same | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 same | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 add | parataxis |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 bride | case |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 bride | punct |
| 14 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 same | obl |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 add | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 used | cc |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 used | aux:pass |
| 18 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 19 used | advmod |
| 19 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 add | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 romances | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 romances | det |
| 22 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 romances | amod |
| 23 | romances | romance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 used | obl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 Lady | case |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Lady | punct |
| 26 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 romances | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 add | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 add | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | may | I | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | that | as bride; etymologically, same property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | present · passive | I not said here | the early romances for Lady | frequently property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» |
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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