More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 32
A gentleman of good account, In Norfolk dwelt of late, Who did in honour far surmount Most men of his estate.
Who acts: gentleman · What happens: dwell, do, surmount · To what, where: Norfolk, Most men, honour
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 gentleman | det |
| 2 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 did | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 account | case |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 account | amod |
| 5 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gentleman | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dwelt | punct |
| 7 | In | in | ADP | _ | 8 Norfolk | case |
| 8 | Norfolk | Norfolk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dwelt | obl |
| 9 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gentleman | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 late | case |
| 11 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dwelt | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 did | punct |
| 13 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 did | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 honour | case |
| 16 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 surmount | obl |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 surmount | advmod |
| 18 | surmount | surmount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 did | parataxis |
| 19 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 men | amod |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 surmount | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 estate | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 estate | nmod:poss |
| 23 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 men | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | a gentleman of good account not said here | Norfolk | of late | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in norfolk=Location | |||
| 2 | do | past | a gentleman of good account | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | surmount | present | Most men of man's estate | honour | far property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Co-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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