More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 36
There still remains the curious parallel from Belfast to which Mrs. Gutch has drawn attention.
Who acts: Mrs. · What happens: remain, draw · To what, where: curious parallel, Belfast, attention
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIV. the Pied Piper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mrs.), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 remains | expl |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 remains | advmod |
| 3 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 parallel | det |
| 5 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 parallel | amod |
| 6 | parallel | parallel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remains | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Belfast | case |
| 8 | Belfast | Belfast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 parallel | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 drawn | obl |
| 11 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 drawn | nsubj |
| 12 | Gutch | Gutch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Mrs. | flat |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 drawn | aux |
| 14 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 parallel | acl |
| 15 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drawn | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | present | the curious parallel | Belfast; there | still | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme parallel=Attribute | |||
| 2 | draw | present · perfect | Mrs. | attention | the curious parallel | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent attention=Theme to which=Destination |
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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