More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 80
Now this Sir G. Vans was a giant, and a bottle-maker.
Who acts: Sir G. Vans · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir G. Vans), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 giant | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 Vans | det |
| 3 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Vans | compound |
| 4 | G. | G. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Vans | compound |
| 5 | Vans | Van | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 giant | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 giant | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 giant | det |
| 8 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 maker | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 maker | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 maker | det |
| 12 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 maker | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 bottle | punct |
| 14 | maker | maker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 giant | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 giant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this Sir G. Vans | now | a bottle maker obl; giant 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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