More English Fairy Tales, LVI. Tattercoats, sentence 11
Which is the prior, folk-novel or tale, it would be hard to say.
What happens: be, say · To what, where: prior folk novel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LVI. Tattercoats. 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 novel | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 novel | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 novel | det |
| 4 | prior | prior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 novel | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 prior | punct |
| 6 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 novel | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 folk | punct |
| 8 | novel | novel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 tale | cc |
| 10 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 novel | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hard | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hard | expl |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 hard | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hard | cop |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 novel | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 say | mark |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hard | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 novel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the prior folk novel or tale | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | would | hard property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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