More English Fairy Tales, LII. Tom Hickathrift, sentence 17
These refer to a sepulchral monument in Tylney churchyard which had figured on a stone coffin an axle-tree and cart-wheel.
Who acts: These · What happens: refer, figure, coffin · To what, where: Tylney churchyard, stone, axle tree
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LII. Tom Hickathrift. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 refer | nsubj |
| 2 | refer | refer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 monument | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 monument | det |
| 5 | sepulchral | sepulchral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 monument | amod |
| 6 | monument | monument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 refer | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 churchyard | case |
| 8 | Tylney | Tylney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 churchyard | compound |
| 9 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 monument | nmod |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 figured | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 figured | aux |
| 12 | figured | figure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 churchyard | acl:relcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 stone | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stone | det |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 figured | obl |
| 16 | coffin | coffin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 refer | conj |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 18 | axle | axle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 axle | punct |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 coffin | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wheel | cc |
| 22 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wheel | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 cart | punct |
| 24 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 refer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refer | present | These | to a sepulchral monument in Tylney churchyard | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to monument=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | figure | past · perfect · passive | Tylney churchyard | a stone | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | coffin | infinitive | These not said here | a axle tree and cart wheel | tree rules |
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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