More English Fairy Tales, XLVIII. the Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 6

Kennedy, _Legendary Fictions_, p. 87, gives a variant with the title "The Brown Bear of Norway."

Who acts: Kennedy · 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: who acts (Kennedy), 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	Kennedy	Kennedy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 gives	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Kennedy	punct
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 Fictions	punct
4	Legendary	legendary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Fictions	amod
5	Fictions	fiction	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Kennedy	appos
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 Fictions	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 87	punct
8	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 87	nmod:unmarked
9	87	87	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Kennedy	list
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Kennedy	punct
11	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 variant	det
13	variant	variant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gives	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 title	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 title	det
16	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gives	obl
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Bear	punct
18	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Bear	det
19	Brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Bear	amod
20	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 title	appos
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Norway	case
22	Norway	Norway	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Bear	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 Bear	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Kennedy	a variant				with the title	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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