More English Fairy Tales, XLVII. My Own Self, sentence 5
_--Notwithstanding Mrs. Balfour's informant, the same tale is widely spread in the North Country.
What happens: notwithstand, spread · To what, where: informant, same tale, North Country
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: 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 Notwithstanding | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 Notwithstanding | punct |
| 3 | Notwithstanding | notwithstand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 informant | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Balfour | Balfour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mrs. | flat |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Mrs. | case |
| 7 | informant | informant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Notwithstanding | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spread | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tale | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tale | amod |
| 11 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 spread | aux:pass |
| 13 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 14 spread | advmod |
| 14 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Notwithstanding | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Country | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Country | det |
| 17 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Country | compound |
| 18 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 spread | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Notwithstanding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notwithstand | gerund | Mrs.'s informant | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | spread | present · passive | the same tale | the North Country | widely property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in country=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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