More English Fairy Tales, LI. Sir Gammer Vans, sentence 2
_--Halliwell's _Nursery Rhymes and Tales.
Who acts: Halliwell · What happens: rhyme
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 (Halliwell), 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 | root | root |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 Rhymes | punct |
| 3 | Halliwell | Halliwell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Rhymes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Halliwell | case |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 Rhymes | punct |
| 6 | Nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Rhymes | compound |
| 7 | Rhymes | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 _ | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Tales | cc |
| 9 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Rhymes | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rhyme | Halliwell | nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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