More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 87
And "Ho, ho!" howled the Things again.
Who acts: Ho · What happens: howl · To what, where: Things
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ho), 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 | _ | 8 howled | cc |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ho | punct |
| 3 | Ho | Ho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 howled | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ho | punct |
| 5 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Ho | appos |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 ho | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ho | punct |
| 8 | howled | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Things | det |
| 10 | Things | Thing | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 howled | obj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 howled | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 howled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | howl | past | Ho | the Things | again | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thing=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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