More English Fairy Tales, XLIX. Yallery Brown, sentence 7
_, p. 151) was "none bigger 'n a three years old bairn," and had no proper name.
Who acts: _ · What happens: be, have · To what, where: none, proper name
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: who acts (_), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 none | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 151 | punct |
| 3 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 151 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 151 | 151 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 _ | appos |
| 5 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 151 | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 none | cop |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 none | punct |
| 8 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 9 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 none | amod |
| 10 | 'n | 'n | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 bairn | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bairn | det |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 old | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bairn | amod |
| 15 | bairn | bairn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bigger | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bigger | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 bigger | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 had | cc |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bigger | conj |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 name | det |
| 21 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 name | amod |
| 22 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 none | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | _ | none | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | _ not said here | no proper name | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
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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