More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 50
She's nought but a brat, with ne'er a cow or a cabbage o' her own."
Who acts: Mother · What happens: be · To what, where: nought
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 (Mother), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 nought | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 nought | cop |
| 3 | nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 brat | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 brat | det |
| 6 | brat | brat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nought | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ne'er | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 ne'er | case |
| 9 | ne'er | ne'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nought | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cow | det |
| 11 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ne'er | appos |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 o | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 o | det |
| 14 | cabbage | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 o | compound |
| 15 | o | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cow | conj |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 o | punct |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 own | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ne'er | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nought | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 nought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Mother | nought | 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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