More English Fairy Tales, XLVI. the Golden Ball, sentence 6
The man in instalments occurs in "The Strange Visitor" (No. xxxii.).
Who acts: man · What happens: occur
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVI. the Golden Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 occurs | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 instalments | case |
| 4 | instalments | instalment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 man | nmod |
| 5 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Visitor | case |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Visitor | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Visitor | det |
| 9 | Strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Visitor | amod |
| 10 | Visitor | visitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 occurs | obl |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Visitor | punct |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 xxxii | punct |
| 13 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 14 xxxii | compound |
| 14 | xxxii | xxxii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Visitor | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 xxxii | punct |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 xxxii | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 occurs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | present | the man in instalments | in the Strange Visitor | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in visitor=Location |
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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