More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 56
Fair is that land and gay, and fain would I stop but for thee and one other thing.
Who acts: Fair, I · What happens: be, stop · To what, where: land
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fair, 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 | Fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 land | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 land | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 land | mark |
| 4 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gay | cc |
| 6 | gay | gay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 land | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stop | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stop | cc |
| 9 | fain | fain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stop | discourse |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 stop | aux |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 stop | nsubj |
| 12 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 land | parataxis |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 thee | cc |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 thee | case |
| 15 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 stop | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 thing | cc |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 thing | nummod |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 thing | amod |
| 19 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thee | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 land | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Fair | land and gay | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stop | would | I | for thee | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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