More English Fairy Tales, LIII. the Hedley Kow, sentence 12
The old woman's content with the changes is similar to that of "Mr. Vinegar."
Who acts: content · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LIII. the Hedley Kow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (content), 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 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 content | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 woman | case |
| 5 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 similar | nsubj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 changes | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 changes | det |
| 8 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 content | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 similar | cop |
| 10 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 that | case |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 similar | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Vinegar | case |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Vinegar | punct |
| 15 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Vinegar | nmod:desc |
| 16 | Vinegar | Vinegar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 that | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 similar | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 similar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the old woman's content with the changes | to that; similar property | 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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