More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 19
Then as to using tales in Lowland Scotch, whereat a Saturday Reviewer, whose identity and fatherland were not difficult to guess, was so shocked.
Who acts: Saturday Reviewer · What happens: use, not be, guess, be · To what, where: tales, Lowland
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 (Saturday Reviewer), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 using | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 using | mark |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 2 as | fixed |
| 4 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 shocked | advcl |
| 5 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 using | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Lowland | case |
| 7 | Lowland | Lowland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 using | obl |
| 8 | Scotch | Scotch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Lowland | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 difficult | punct |
| 10 | whereat | whereat | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 difficult | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Reviewer | det |
| 12 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Reviewer | compound |
| 13 | Reviewer | Reviewer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 difficult | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 identity | punct |
| 15 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 16 identity | nmod:poss |
| 16 | identity | identity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Reviewer | appos |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fatherland | cc |
| 18 | fatherland | fatherland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 identity | conj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 difficult | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 difficult | advmod |
| 21 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Lowland | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 guess | mark |
| 23 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 difficult | csubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 using | punct |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 shocked | cop |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 shocked | advmod |
| 27 | shocked | shocked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 shocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | gerund | tales | Lowland | then | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Patient | |||
| 2 | not is | past | a Saturday Reviewer | difficult, whereat property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | guess | to-infinitive | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | shocked property | tree rules |
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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