More English Fairy Tales, LI. Sir Gammer Vans, sentence 14
The honorific prefix "Sir" may in that case refer to clerkly qualities rather than to knighthood.
Who acts: honorific prefix · What happens: refer · To what, where: case
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 (honorific prefix), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prefix | det |
| 2 | honorific | honorific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prefix | amod |
| 3 | prefix | prefix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 refer | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sir | punct |
| 5 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 prefix | appos |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sir | punct |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 refer | aux |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 case | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 case | det |
| 10 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 refer | obl |
| 11 | refer | refer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 qualities | case |
| 13 | clerkly | clerkly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 qualities | amod |
| 14 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 refer | obl |
| 15 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 18 knighthood | cc |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 rather | fixed |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 knighthood | case |
| 18 | knighthood | knighthood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 refer | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 refer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refer | may | the honorific prefix | that case | to clerkly qualities | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to quality=Co-Theme |
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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