More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 43
Which was the wisest of these three persons, judge yourself.
What happens: be, judge · To what, where: yourself
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: 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 wisest | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wisest | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wisest | det |
| 4 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 persons | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 persons | det |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 persons | nummod |
| 8 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wisest | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 judge | punct |
| 10 | judge | judge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 wisest | parataxis |
| 11 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 judge | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wisest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | of this three persons; wise property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | judge | infinitive | yourself | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent yourself=Value |
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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