More English Fairy Tales, LVI. Tattercoats, sentence 4
It was originally told in dialect, which Mrs. Balfour has omitted.
Who acts: Mrs. · What happens: tell, omit · To what, where: Source, dialect · 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: who acts (Mrs.), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux:pass |
| 3 | originally | originally | ADV | _ | 4 told | advmod |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 dialect | case |
| 6 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 omitted | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 omitted | obj |
| 9 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 omitted | nsubj |
| 10 | Balfour | Balfour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Mrs. | flat |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 omitted | aux |
| 12 | omitted | omit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 dialect | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | Source | dialect | originally property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | omit | present · perfect | Mrs. | dialect | vn exclude-107.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
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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