More English Fairy Tales, LI. Sir Gammer Vans, sentence 13
_--The reference to venison warrants, and bows and arrows seems to argue considerable antiquity for this piece of nonsense.
Who acts: bows · What happens: seem, argue · To what, where: considerable antiquity
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LI. Sir Gammer Vans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bows), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 warrants | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 reference | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 reference | det |
| 4 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 warrants | compound |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 venison | case |
| 6 | venison | venison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reference | nmod |
| 7 | warrants | warrant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seems | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seems | cc |
| 10 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 seems | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 arrows | cc |
| 12 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bows | conj |
| 13 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 warrants | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 argue | mark |
| 15 | argue | argue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 seems | xcomp |
| 16 | considerable | considerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 antiquity | amod |
| 17 | antiquity | antiquity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 argue | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 piece | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 piece | det |
| 20 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 argue | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 nonsense | case |
| 22 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 piece | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 warrants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | bows and arrows | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | argue speech: disagree | to-infinitive | bows and arrows not said here | considerable antiquity | for this piece of nonsense | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent antiquity=Topic |
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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