More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 42
They recognise the unusual forms while enjoying the fun of them.
Who acts: children · What happens: recognise, enjoy · To what, where: unusual forms, fun
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 (children), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 recognise | nsubj |
| 2 | recognise | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 forms | det |
| 4 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 forms | amod |
| 5 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 recognise | obj |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 enjoying | mark |
| 7 | enjoying | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 recognise | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fun | det |
| 9 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 enjoying | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fun | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 recognise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | present | children = child | the unusual forms | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer form=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | enjoy | gerund | children = child not said here | the fun of children | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fun=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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