More English Fairy Tales, XLVI. the Golden Ball, sentence 7
The latter part of the tale has been turned into a game for English children, "Mary Brown," given in Miss Plunket's _Merry Games_, but not included in Newell, _Games and Songs of American Children_.
Who acts: American Children · What happens: turn, give, not include, sing · To what, where: latter part, game, Mary, _ Merry Games, Newell
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 (American Children), 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 | 3 part | det |
| 2 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 part | amod |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 tale | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tale | det |
| 6 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 part | nmod |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 turned | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 turned | aux:pass |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 game | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 game | det |
| 12 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 children | case |
| 14 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 children | amod |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 turned | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Mary | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Mary | punct |
| 18 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 children | appos |
| 19 | Brown | Brown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Mary | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 given | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 given | punct |
| 22 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 Mary | acl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Games | case |
| 24 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Plunket | compound |
| 25 | Plunket | Plunket | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Games | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Plunket | case |
| 27 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Games | compound |
| 28 | Merry | Merry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Games | compound |
| 29 | Games | Game | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 given | obl |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 given | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 included | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 included | cc |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 included | advmod |
| 34 | included | include | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 turned | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 Newell | case |
| 36 | Newell | Newell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 included | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Games | punct |
| 38 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 Games | punct |
| 39 | Games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 Newell | appos |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 Songs | cc |
| 41 | Songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 Games | conj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 Children | case |
| 43 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 Children | amod |
| 44 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 Songs | nmod |
| 45 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 34 included | punct |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present · perfect · passive | the latter part of the tale | a game | for English children | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into game=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | give | participle | Mary not said here | Miss Plunket's _ Merry Games | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not include | participle | in Newell goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in newell=Goal | |||||
| 4 | sing | American Children | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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