More English Fairy Tales, XLVIII. the Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 2
_--Chambers's _Popular Rhymes of Scotland_, much Anglicised in language, but otherwise unaltered.
Who acts: _, Scotland · What happens: anglicise, rhyme · To what, where: language
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 (_, Scotland), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Anglicised | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 Rhymes | punct |
| 3 | Chambers | Chambers | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Rhymes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Chambers | case |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 Rhymes | punct |
| 6 | Popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Rhymes | amod |
| 7 | Rhymes | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 _ | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Scotland | case |
| 9 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Rhymes | nmod |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Anglicised | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Anglicised | punct |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 Anglicised | advmod |
| 13 | Anglicised | anglicise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 language | case |
| 15 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Anglicised | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 unaltered | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 unaltered | cc |
| 18 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 19 unaltered | advmod |
| 19 | unaltered | unaltered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Anglicised | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Anglicised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | anglicise | participle | _ | language | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rhyme | Scotland | nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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