More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 64
Then meseemed that if I digged I should find beneath that tree a great treasure.
Who acts: I · What happens: meseem, digg, find · To what, where: great treasure
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 (I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 meseemed | advmod |
| 2 | meseemed | meseem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 digged | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 digged | nsubj |
| 6 | digged | digg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | advcl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 find | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | aux |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 meseemed | advcl |
| 10 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 treasure | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 treasure | amod |
| 15 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 meseemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meseem | past | then | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | digg a condition, not said to happen | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | find | should | I | a great treasure | beneath that tree | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic |
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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