More English Fairy Tales, XLVII. My Own Self, sentence 7
Jevons has heard it in the neighbourhood of Durham; while a further version appeared in _Monthly Chronicle of North Country Folk-Lore_.
Who acts: Jevons, further version · What happens: hear, appear · To what, where: informant, neighbourhood, _ Monthly Chronicle
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 (Jevons, further version), 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 | Jevons | Jevons | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | aux |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 neighbourhood | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 neighbourhood | det |
| 7 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Durham | case |
| 9 | Durham | Durham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 neighbourhood | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 appeared | punct |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 appeared | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 version | det |
| 13 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 version | amod |
| 14 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 appeared | nsubj |
| 15 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Chronicle | case |
| 17 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Chronicle | compound |
| 18 | Monthly | Monthly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Chronicle | compound |
| 19 | Chronicle | Chronicle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 appeared | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Country | case |
| 21 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Country | compound |
| 22 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Chronicle | nmod |
| 23 | Folk | Folk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Country | flat |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Lore | punct |
| 25 | Lore | Lore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Folk | conj |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 appeared | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · perfect | Jevons | informant | the neighbourhood of Durham | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | appear | past | a further version | _ Monthly Chronicle of North Country | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chronicle=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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