More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 18
And in the same wood there was a Fox who lived all alone, his name was Scrapefoot.
Who acts: Fox, name · What happens: be, live, name · To what, where: same wood, Scrapefoot
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, name), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 was | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 wood | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wood | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wood | amod |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | obl |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Fox | det |
| 9 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Fox | acl:relcl |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 alone | advmod |
| 13 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 11 lived | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Scrapefoot | punct |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 name | nmod:poss |
| 16 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Scrapefoot | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Scrapefoot | cop |
| 18 | Scrapefoot | Scrapefoot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Fox | appos |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a Fox | the same wood; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location | ||||
| 2 | live | past | a Fox | alone property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Fox's name | Scrapefoot | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name | Fox | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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