More English Fairy Tales, XLVIII. the Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 7
Mr. Stewart gave a Leitrim version, in which "Norroway" becomes "Orange," in _Folk-Lore_ for June, 1893, which Miss Peacock follows up with a Lincolnshire parallel (showing the same corruption of name) in the September number.
Who acts: Stewart, Norroway, Miss Peacock, Lincolnshire parallel · What happens: give, become, follow up, show · To what, where: Leitrim version, Folk Lore, June, same corruption
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 (Stewart, Norroway, Miss Peacock, Lincolnshire parallel), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Stewart | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Stewart | Stewart | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 version | det |
| 5 | Leitrim | Leitrim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 version | compound |
| 6 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 becomes | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 becomes | obl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Norroway | punct |
| 11 | Norroway | Norroway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 becomes | nsubj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Norroway | punct |
| 13 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Orange | punct |
| 15 | Orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 becomes | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Orange | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Orange | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Lore | case |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 Lore | punct |
| 20 | Folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Lore | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Folk | punct |
| 22 | Lore | Lore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 becomes | obl |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 June | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 June | case |
| 25 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 becomes | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 1893 | punct |
| 27 | 1893 | 1893 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 June | flat |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 follows | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 follows | obj |
| 30 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Peacock | compound |
| 31 | Peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 follows | nsubj |
| 32 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 June | acl:relcl |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 follows | compound:prt |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 parallel | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 parallel | det |
| 36 | Lincolnshire | Lincolnshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 parallel | compound |
| 37 | parallel | parallel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 follows | obl |
| 38 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 39 showing | punct |
| 39 | showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 parallel | acl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 corruption | det |
| 41 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 corruption | amod |
| 42 | corruption | corruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 showing | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 name | case |
| 44 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 corruption | nmod |
| 45 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 39 showing | punct |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 number | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 number | det |
| 48 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 number | compound |
| 49 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 showing | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Stewart Mr. | a Leitrim version | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | present | Norroway | Folk Lore | june | orange property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in which=Result | ||
| 3 | follow up | present | Miss Peacock | June | with a Lincolnshire parallel | tree rules | |||
| 4 | show | gerund | a Lincolnshire parallel not said here | the same corruption of name | in the September number | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent corruption=Patient in number=Topic |
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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