More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 108
One warm day as he was enjoying his ease, he was annoyed by the flies alighting on his bare ankles.
Who acts: Johnny, One warm day, flies · What happens: enjoy, be, alight · To what, where: ease, bare ankles
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Johnny, One warm day, flies), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 2 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 annoyed | nsubj |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 enjoying | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 enjoying | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 enjoying | aux |
| 7 | enjoying | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 day | acl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ease | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 enjoying | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 annoyed | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 annoyed | cop |
| 13 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 flies | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 flies | det |
| 16 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 annoyed | obl |
| 17 | alighting | alight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 flies | acl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 ankles | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 ankles | nmod:poss |
| 20 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ankles | amod |
| 21 | ankles | ankle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 alighting | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 annoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoy | past · progressive | Johnny | Johnny's ease | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ease=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | One warm day | by the flies; annoyed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | alight | gerund | the flies not said here | Johnny's bare ankles | 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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