More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 58
But the bannock wouldn't trust itself with the miller and his cheese.
Who acts: bannock · What happens: not trust · To what, where: Bannock
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 (bannock), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 trust | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bannock | det |
| 3 | bannock | bannock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trust | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 trust | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 trust | advmod |
| 6 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 trust | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 miller | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 miller | det |
| 10 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trust | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cheese | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cheese | nmod:poss |
| 13 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 miller | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 trust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not trust | would | the bannock | Bannock | with the miller and man's cheese | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient with miller=Theme |
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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