More English Fairy Tales, XLVIII. the Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 5
_, gave a variant with the title "The Red Bull o' Norroway."
What happens: give · To what, where: variant
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: 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 gave | punct |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 variant | det |
| 5 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 title | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 title | det |
| 8 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bull | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Bull | det |
| 11 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Bull | compound |
| 12 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 title | conj |
| 13 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 15 Norroway | case |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Norroway | punct |
| 15 | Norroway | Norroway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Bull | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | a variant | with the title and the Red Bull of Norroway | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent variant=Theme |
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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