More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 69
Who is it that sits next the wall But Lady Mousie both slim and small?
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: 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 sits | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sits | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sits | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 sits | nsubj |
| 5 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | next | next | ADP | _ | 8 wall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wall | det |
| 8 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sits | obl |
| 9 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 Lady | cc |
| 10 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 wall | conj |
| 11 | Mousie | Mousie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Lady | flat |
| 12 | both | both | ADV | _ | 13 slim | advmod |
| 13 | slim | slim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wall | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 small | cc |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 slim | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | next the wall but Lady; sit 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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