More English Fairy Tales, XLVII. My Own Self, sentence 2
_--Told to Mrs. Balfour by Mrs. W., a native of North Sunderland, who had seen the cottage and heard the tale from persons who had known the widow and her boy, and had got the story direct from them.
Who acts: native · What happens: tell, see, hear, know, get · To what, where: cottage, tale, persons, story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVII. My Own Self. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (native), 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 | _ | 3 Told | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 Told | punct |
| 3 | Told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Mrs. | case |
| 5 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Told | obl:agent |
| 6 | Balfour | Balfour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mrs. | flat |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Mrs. | case |
| 8 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Told | obl:agent |
| 9 | W. | W. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mrs. | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 native | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 native | det |
| 12 | native | native | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Mrs. | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Sunderland | case |
| 14 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Sunderland | compound |
| 15 | Sunderland | Sunderland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 native | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seen | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 seen | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 native | acl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cottage | det |
| 21 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seen | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 heard | cc |
| 23 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tale | det |
| 25 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heard | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 persons | case |
| 27 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 heard | obl |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 known | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 known | aux |
| 30 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 persons | acl:relcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 widow | det |
| 32 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 known | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 boy | cc |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 boy | nmod:poss |
| 35 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 widow | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 got | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 got | cc |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 got | aux |
| 39 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 heard | parataxis |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 story | det |
| 41 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 got | obj |
| 42 | direct | direct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 got | xcomp |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 them | case |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 direct | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | participle | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | a native of North Sunderland | the cottage | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cottage=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | a native of North Sunderland not said here | the tale | from persons | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent tale=Topic from person=Source | |||
| 4 | know | past · perfect · passive | persons | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | get | past · perfect | the story | direct property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
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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