More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 63
This one's mansion was very pretty, and the country around it beautiful, after his head was cut off.
Who acts: mansion · What happens: be, cut off · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mansion), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mansion | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 one | case |
| 4 | mansion | mansion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beautiful | nsubj:outer |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 beautiful | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 pretty | advmod |
| 7 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 14 beautiful | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beautiful | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 beautiful | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 country | det |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beautiful | nsubj |
| 12 | around | around | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 country | nmod |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cut | punct |
| 16 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 20 cut | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cut | aux:pass |
| 20 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 beautiful | advcl |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 cut | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this one's mansion | beautiful, pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cut off | past · passive | Prince's head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=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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