More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 72
And when this was known, who should be first but a nasty rough old man.
What happens: know, be · To what, where: this
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 known | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 known | advmod |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 known | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 known | aux:pass |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 first | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 first | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 first | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 first | cop |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 known | parataxis |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 man | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 13 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 14 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 first | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | should | first 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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