Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 163
The prince and she sent the cowboy to school, and trained him up as one of their own children, and said: "If the little girl that is born to us now lives, no other man in the world will get her but him."
Who acts: child, little girl, other man · What happens: send, train up, say, bear, live, get · To what, where: prince, school, cowboy, little girl, us, child · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, little girl, other man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 prince | cc |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cowboy | det |
| 7 | cowboy | cowboy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 school | case |
| 9 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trained | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 trained | cc |
| 12 | trained | train | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 trained | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 trained | compound:prt |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 trained | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 children | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 children | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 children | amod |
| 20 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | conj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 36 lives | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 lives | punct |
| 26 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 lives | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 girl | det |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 girl | amod |
| 29 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lives | nsubj |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 born | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 born | aux:pass |
| 32 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 girl | acl:relcl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 us | case |
| 34 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 born | obl |
| 35 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 lives | advmod |
| 36 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | ccomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 get | punct |
| 38 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 40 man | det |
| 39 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 man | amod |
| 40 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 get | nsubj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 world | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 world | det |
| 43 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 man | nmod |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 get | aux |
| 45 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 lives | conj |
| 46 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 get | obj |
| 47 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 48 him | cc |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 get | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | child | the prince | school | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cowboy=Theme to school=Destination | |||
| 2 | train up | past | child not said here | cowboy | as one of princes's own children | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as one=Attribute | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | child not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | bear in a quote | present · passive | the little girl | us | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | live a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the little girl | now | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | get in a quote | future | no other man in the world | child | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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