More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 19
The Mayor and the town council were at their wits' end.
Who acts: Mayor · What happens: be · To what, where: end
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 (Mayor), 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 Mayor | det |
| 2 | Mayor | Mayor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 were | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 council | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 council | det |
| 5 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 council | compound |
| 6 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Mayor | conj |
| 7 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 end | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wits | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 end | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 10 wits | case |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 were | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the Mayor and the town council | at Mayor's wits's end | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location |
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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