More English Fairy Tales, LVII. the Wee Bannock, sentence 10
_--This is clearly a variant of _Johnny-cake_ = journey-cake, No. xxviii., where see Notes.
Who acts: This, _ · What happens: be, see · To what, where: variant, Notes
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LVII. the Wee Bannock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, _), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 see | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 variant | punct |
| 3 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 variant | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 variant | cop |
| 5 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 7 variant | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 variant | det |
| 7 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 _ | case |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 _ | punct |
| 10 | Johnny | Johnny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 _ | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Johnny | punct |
| 12 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 _ | compound |
| 13 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 variant | nmod |
| 14 | = | = | SYM | _ | 17 cake | punct |
| 15 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cake | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 journey | punct |
| 17 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 _ | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 xxviii | punct |
| 19 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 20 xxviii | compound |
| 20 | xxviii | xxviii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 _ | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 see | advmod |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | Notes | Note | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 see | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | a variant | of Johnny cake _ and journey cake and No. xxviii; clearly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | infinitive | _ | Notes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus |
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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