More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 12
With a smile upon his face, he gives a graceful bow.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: give · To what, where: graceful bow
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 smile | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 smile | det |
| 3 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gives | obl |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 face | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 face | nmod:poss |
| 6 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smile | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 smile | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gives | nsubj |
| 9 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bow | det |
| 11 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bow | amod |
| 12 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gives | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Prince | a graceful bow | with a smile upon Prince's face | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=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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