More English Fairy Tales, L. the Three Feathers, sentence 8
M. Bédier, in his recent work on _Les Fabliaux_, pp.
Who acts: M. · What happens: work · To what, where: Les
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, L. the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (M.), 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 | M. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Bédier | Bédier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 M. | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 work | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 work | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 work | nmod:poss |
| 6 | recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 work | amod |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 M. | appos |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Les | case |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 on | punct |
| 10 | Les | Les | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 work | nmod |
| 11 | Fabliaux | Fabliaux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Les | flat |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Les | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pp | punct |
| 14 | pp | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Les | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 M. | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | M. | Les and pp | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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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