More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 138
"Noa, sweet ally, I was busy a-feeshing."
Who acts: Noa · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Noa), 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 | _ | 2 Noa | punct |
| 2 | Noa | Noa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 busy | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ally | punct |
| 4 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ally | amod |
| 5 | ally | ally | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Noa | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Noa | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 busy | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 busy | cop |
| 9 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 feeshing | det |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 a | punct |
| 12 | feeshing | feeshing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 busy | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 busy | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | Noa | a feeshing obl:unmarked; busy 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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