More English Fairy Tales, LIV. Gobborn Seer, sentence 8
An instance in my _Indian Fairy Tales_, "Why the Fish Laughed" (No. xxiv.).
Who acts: my · What happens: tell · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LIV. Gobborn Seer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (my), 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 | 2 instance | det |
| 2 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Tales | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Tales | nmod:poss |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Tales | punct |
| 6 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Tales | amod |
| 7 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Tales | compound |
| 8 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 instance | nmod |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Tales | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 instance | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Laughed | punct |
| 12 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 Laughed | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Laughed | det |
| 14 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Laughed | compound |
| 15 | Laughed | Laughed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 instance | conj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Laughed | punct |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 xxiv | punct |
| 18 | No. | no. | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 xxiv | det |
| 19 | xxiv | xxiv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Laughed | appos |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 xxiv | punct |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 xxiv | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 instance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell | my | nom tale «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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