More English Fairy Tales, XLV. Hereafterthis, sentence 8
Halliwell remarks that the tale throws light on a passage in Ben Jonson:
Who acts: Halliwell, tale · What happens: remark, throw · To what, where: light, passage
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 (Halliwell, tale), 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 | Halliwell | Halliwell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 remarks | nsubj |
| 2 | remarks | remark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 throws | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tale | det |
| 5 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 throws | nsubj |
| 6 | throws | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 remarks | advcl |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 throws | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 passage | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 passage | det |
| 10 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 throws | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Ben | case |
| 12 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 passage | nmod |
| 13 | Jonson | Jonson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Ben | flat |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 remarks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remark speech: assert | present | Halliwell | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | throw | present | the tale | light | a passage in Ben | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent light=Theme on passage=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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