More English Fairy Tales, LII. Tom Hickathrift, sentence 7
_--There are similar adventures of giants in Hunt's Cornish _Drolls_.
What happens: be, droll · To what, where: similar adventures, Cornish _
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: 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 | _ | 6 adventures | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 are | punct |
| 3 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 are | expl |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 adventures | cop |
| 5 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 adventures | amod |
| 6 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 giants | case |
| 8 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 adventures | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 _ | case |
| 10 | Hunt | Hunt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 _ | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Hunt | case |
| 12 | Cornish | Cornish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 _ | compound |
| 13 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Drolls | obl |
| 14 | Drolls | droll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 adventures | parataxis |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 Drolls | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 adventures | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | similar adventures | of giants | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | droll | present | Hunt's Cornish _ | 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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