More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 12
This is rank sacrilege in the eyes of the rigid orthodox in matters folk-lorical.
Who acts: This, rank sacrilege · What happens: be, matter · To what, where: rank sacrilege
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 (This, rank sacrilege), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 sacrilege | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sacrilege | cop |
| 3 | rank | rank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sacrilege | amod |
| 4 | sacrilege | sacrilege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 matters | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 eyes | det |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sacrilege | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 orthodox | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 orthodox | det |
| 10 | rigid | rigid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 orthodox | amod |
| 11 | orthodox | orthodox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eyes | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 sacrilege | case |
| 13 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lorical | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 folk | punct |
| 16 | lorical | lorical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 matters | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 matters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | This | rank sacrilege | in the eyes of the rigid orthodox | tree rules | |||
| 2 | matter | present | rank sacrilege | lorical property | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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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