More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 2
Newtown, or Franchville, as 't was called of old, is a sleepy little town, as you all may know, upon the Solent shore.
Who acts: Newtown, you · What happens: call, be, know · To what, where: t, sleepy little town · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Newtown, you), 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 | Newtown | Newtown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 town | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Franchville | punct |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 Franchville | cc |
| 4 | Franchville | Franchville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Newtown | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 called | mark |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 8 | t | t | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 called | aux:pass |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Newtown | acl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 old | case |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 called | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Newtown | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 town | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 town | det |
| 16 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 town | amod |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 town | amod |
| 18 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 know | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 know | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 know | nsubj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 know | aux |
| 24 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 town | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 shore | punct |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 29 shore | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 shore | det |
| 28 | Solent | Solent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 shore | compound |
| 29 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 know | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 town | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | Newtown or Franchville not said here | t | of old | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Newtown or Franchville | a sleepy little town | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | may | you | upon the Solent shore | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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