More English Fairy Tales, XLVI. the Golden Ball, sentence 9
_--This story is especially interesting as having given rise to a game.
Who acts: _ · What happens: be, have, give · To what, where: given rise
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 (_), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 interesting | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 3 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 interesting | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 interesting | cop |
| 6 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 7 interesting | advmod |
| 7 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 having | mark |
| 9 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 interesting | advcl |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 rise | amod |
| 11 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 having | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 game | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 game | det |
| 14 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 having | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 interesting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | _ | especially, interesting property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | _ not said here | given rise | to a game | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rise=Patient | |||
| 3 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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