More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 58
How soon may I ride this round world about?"
Who acts: I · What happens: ride · To what, where: round world
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 (I), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 ride | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 ride | advmod |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 ride | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 ride | nsubj |
| 5 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 world | det |
| 7 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 world | amod |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ride | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 ride | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 ride | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | may | I | this round world | soon property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=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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