More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 140
At Dalton, near Thirsk, in Yorkshire, there is a mill.
Who acts: mill · What happens: be · To what, where: Dalton
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mill), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 Dalton | case |
| 2 | Dalton | Dalton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 is | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Thirsk | punct |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 5 Thirsk | case |
| 5 | Thirsk | Thirsk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Dalton | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Yorkshire | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Yorkshire | case |
| 8 | Yorkshire | Yorkshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Thirsk | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dalton | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 is | expl |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 mill | det |
| 13 | mill | mill | NOUN | _ | 11 is | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a mill | Dalton and Thirsk; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at dalton=Location |
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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