More English Fairy Tales, XLV. Hereafterthis, sentence 15
_--"Hereafterthis" is thus a _mélange_ of droll incidents, yet has characteristic folkish touches ("can you milk-y, bake-y," "when I lived home") which give it much vivacity.
Who acts: Hereafterthis, Halliwell, characteristic folkish touches · What happens: be, have, live, give · To what, where: mélange _, characteristic folkish touches, y
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLV. Hereafterthis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hereafterthis, Halliwell, characteristic folkish touches), 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 | _ | 4 Hereafterthis | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 Hereafterthis | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Hereafterthis | punct |
| 4 | Hereafterthis | Hereafterthis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 _ | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Hereafterthis | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 _ | cop |
| 7 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 11 _ | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 _ | det |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 _ | punct |
| 10 | mélange | mélange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 _ | compound |
| 11 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 incidents | case |
| 13 | droll | droll | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 incidents | amod |
| 14 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 _ | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 has | punct |
| 16 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 17 has | cc |
| 17 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 _ | parataxis |
| 18 | characteristic | characteristic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 touches | amod |
| 19 | folkish | folkish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 touches | amod |
| 20 | touches | touch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 has | obj |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 can | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 can | punct |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 touches | acl:relcl |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 can | nsubj |
| 25 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 you | appos |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 y | punct |
| 27 | y | y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 milk | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 y | punct |
| 29 | bake | bake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 y | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 bake | punct |
| 31 | y | y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 milk | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 you | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 can | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 lived | punct |
| 35 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 lived | advmod |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 lived | nsubj |
| 37 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 can | conj |
| 38 | home | home | ADV | _ | 37 lived | advmod |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 can | punct |
| 40 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 can | punct |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 give | nsubj |
| 42 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 touches | acl:relcl |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 give | obj |
| 44 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 vivacity | amod |
| 45 | vivacity | vivacity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 give | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 _ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Hereafterthis | a mélange _ | of droll incidents; thus property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | present | characteristic folkish touches | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent touch=Patient | |||||
| 3 | live in a quote | past | Halliwell | home property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | present | characteristic folkish touches | y | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient vivacity=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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