More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 41
"Why, verily, I'm glad we are so happily met."
Who acts: Tom · What happens: be, meet · To what, where: we
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 glad | punct |
| 4 | verily | verily | ADV | _ | 8 glad | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 glad | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 glad | nsubj |
| 7 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 glad | cop |
| 8 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Why | parataxis |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 met | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 met | aux:pass |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 met | advmod |
| 12 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 13 met | advmod |
| 13 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 glad | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 glad | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Tom | glad, verily property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | meet in a quote | present · passive | we | happily property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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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