More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 51
For I can pipe many kinds of tunes, as folk sometimes find to their cost."
Who acts: many kinds, kinds · What happens: find, cost
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 (many kinds, kinds), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 pipe | case |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 pipe | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pipe | aux |
| 4 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obl |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kinds | amod |
| 6 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 find | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tunes | case |
| 8 | tunes | tune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kinds | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 folk | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 folk | case |
| 11 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tunes | conj |
| 12 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 find | advmod |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 cost | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 cost | nmod:poss |
| 16 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | many kinds of tunes and folk | for pipe; to kinds's cost; sometimes property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for pipe=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | cost | kinds = kind | nom cost «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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