More English Fairy Tales, XLVIII. the Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 12
_--The Black Bull is clearly a Beast who ultimately wins a Beauty.
Who acts: Black Bull, Beast · What happens: be, win · To what, where: Beast, Beauty
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 (Black Bull, Beast), 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 | _ | 9 Beast | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 Beast | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Bull | det |
| 4 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Bull | amod |
| 5 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Beast | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Beast | cop |
| 7 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 9 Beast | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Beast | det |
| 9 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 wins | nsubj |
| 11 | ultimately | ultimately | ADV | _ | 12 wins | advmod |
| 12 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Beast | acl:relcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Beauty | det |
| 14 | Beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wins | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Beast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Black Bull | a Beast | clearly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | win | present | a Beast | a Beauty | ultimately property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Eventuality |
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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