More English Fairy Tales, LIII. the Hedley Kow, sentence 13
An ascending scale of changes has been studied by Prof.
Who acts: Prof · What happens: ascend, study · To what, where: ascending scale
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 (Prof), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 scale | det |
| 2 | ascending | ascend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 scale | amod |
| 3 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 studied | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 changes | case |
| 5 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 scale | nmod |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 studied | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 studied | aux:pass |
| 8 | studied | study | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Prof | case |
| 10 | Prof | Prof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 studied | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 studied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascend | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | study | present · perfect · passive | Prof | a ascending scale of changes | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
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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