More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 40
"We who live in dreary den, Are both rank and foul to see?
Who acts: We · What happens: live, be, see · To what, where: dreary den
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 live | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 live | nsubj |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 den | case |
| 6 | dreary | dreary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 den | amod |
| 7 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rank | punct |
| 9 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 rank | cop |
| 10 | both | both | ADV | _ | 11 rank | advmod |
| 11 | rank | rank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 live | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 foul | cc |
| 13 | foul | foul | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rank | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 foul | xcomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | present | We | dreary den | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in den=Location | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | both, rank property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | tree rules | |||||||
| 4 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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