More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 89
So in the morning the old man cut off another of little dog Turpie's legs.
Who acts: old man · What happens: cut off · To what, where: another
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 (old man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 cut | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cut | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cut | nsubj |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 cut | compound:prt |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 cut | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 dog | case |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dog | amod |
| 13 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 another | nmod |
| 14 | Turpie | Turpie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 legs | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Turpie | case |
| 16 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dog | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | participle | the old man | another | morning | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector another=Eventuality |
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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