More English Fairy Tales, XLVIII. the Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 10
It probably existed in one of the versions of _Nix Nought Nothing_ (No. vii.).
Who acts: reference · What happens: exist · To what, where: vii
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVIII. the Black Bull of Norroway. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reference), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 existed | nsubj |
| 2 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 3 existed | advmod |
| 3 | existed | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 existed | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 versions | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 versions | det |
| 8 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Nought | case |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 of | punct |
| 11 | Nix | Nix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Nought | compound |
| 12 | Nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 8 versions | nmod |
| 13 | Nothing | Nothing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Nought | appos |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 existed | punct |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 vii | punct |
| 16 | No. | no. | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 vii | det |
| 17 | vii | vii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 existed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 vii | punct |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 vii | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 existed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | past | reference | no. vii | in one of the versions of Nought; probably property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in one=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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