More English Fairy Tales, XLIX. Yallery Brown, sentence 2
_--Mrs. Balfour's "Legends of the Lincolnshire Fens," in _Folk-Lore_, ii.
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIX. Yallery Brown. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 Legends | punct |
| 3 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Balfour | compound |
| 4 | Balfour | Balfour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Legends | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Balfour | case |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Legends | punct |
| 7 | Legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 _ | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Fens | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Fens | det |
| 10 | Lincolnshire | Lincolnshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Fens | compound |
| 11 | Fens | Fen | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 Legends | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Fens | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Fens | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Lore | case |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 Lore | punct |
| 16 | Folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Lore | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Folk | punct |
| 18 | Lore | Lore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Legends | nmod |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 Lore | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ii | punct |
| 21 | ii | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 18 Lore | flat |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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