More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 10
My folk-lore friends look on with sadness while they view me laying profane hands on the sacred text of my originals.
Who acts: lore friends, friends · What happens: look on, view, lay · To what, where: me, profane hands, sacred text
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Ætat. XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lore friends, friends), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friends | nmod:poss |
| 2 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lore | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 folk | punct |
| 4 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 friends | compound |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 look | nsubj |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 look | compound:prt |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 sadness | case |
| 9 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | obl |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 view | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 view | nsubj |
| 12 | view | view | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 look | advcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 view | obj |
| 14 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 view | advcl |
| 15 | profane | profane | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hands | amod |
| 16 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 laying | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 text | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 text | det |
| 19 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 text | amod |
| 20 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laying | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 originals | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 originals | nmod:poss |
| 23 | originals | original | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 text | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look on | present | My lore friends | with sadness | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | view | present | friends = friend | me | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lay | gerund | friends = friend not said here | profane hands | the sacred text of my originals | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on text=Destination |
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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