More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 57
In and out among the oak-trees you might catch glimpses of the Piper's many-coloured coat.
Who acts: you · What happens: catch, glimpse · To what, where: glimpses, coloured coat
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 (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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 3 out | mark |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 out | cc |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 catch | advmod |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 trees | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trees | det |
| 6 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trees | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 oak | punct |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 out | obl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 catch | nsubj |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 catch | aux |
| 11 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | glimpses | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 catch | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 coat | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Piper | det |
| 15 | Piper | Piper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 coat | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Piper | case |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 coloured | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 many | punct |
| 19 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 coat | amod |
| 20 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 glimpses | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | might | you | glimpses of the Piper's coloured coat | out property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme | |||
| 2 | glimpse | the Piper's coloured coat | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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