More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 26
MR. G. And why were they over-worked?
Who acts: horses · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses), 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 | MR. | MR. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 G. | nmod:desc |
| 2 | G. | G. | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 over-worked | cc |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 over-worked | advmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 over-worked | cop |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 over-worked | nsubj |
| 7 | over-worked | over-worked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 G. | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 G. | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | horses = horse | over-worked property | tree rules |
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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