More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 7
Why the very mead and beer in the barrels was not safe from them.
Who acts: mead · What happens: not be
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 (mead), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 safe | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mead | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 mead | advmod |
| 4 | mead | mead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 safe | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 beer | cc |
| 6 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mead | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 barrels | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 barrels | det |
| 9 | barrels | barrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mead | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 safe | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 safe | advmod |
| 12 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 safe | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 safe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the mead in the barrels and beer | from barn; safe property | tree rules |
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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