More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 133
One of the lasses, 't was the youngest, lost her ball.
Who acts: One t · What happens: be, lose · To what, where: ball
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One t), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 t | nummod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 lasses | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lasses | det |
| 4 | lasses | lass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lasses | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 lasses | punct |
| 7 | t | t | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 youngest | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 youngest | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 youngest | det |
| 10 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lost | punct |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 youngest | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ball | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lost | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 youngest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | One t | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | One t not said here | bonny's ball | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Eventuality |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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