More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 30
The English folk-muse wears homespun and plods afoot, albeit with a cheerful smile and a steady gaze.
Who acts: English folk muse · What happens: wear, plod · To what, where: homespun
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (English folk muse), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 muse | det |
| 2 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 muse | amod |
| 3 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 muse | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 folk | punct |
| 5 | muse | muse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wears | nsubj |
| 6 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | homespun | homespun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wears | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 plods | cc |
| 9 | plods | plod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wears | conj |
| 10 | afoot | afoot | ADV | _ | 9 plods | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 smile | punct |
| 12 | albeit | albeit | ADP | _ | 16 smile | case |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 smile | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 smile | det |
| 15 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 smile | amod |
| 16 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plods | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gaze | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 gaze | det |
| 19 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 gaze | amod |
| 20 | gaze | gaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 smile | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present | the English folk muse | homespun | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent homespun=Source | ||||
| 2 | plod | present | the English folk muse not said here | albeit a cheerful smile and a steady gaze; afoot property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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