More English Fairy Tales, LVII. the Wee Bannock, sentence 12
_--But here the interest is with the pursuers rather than with the pursued.
Who acts: interest · What happens: be, pursue
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 (interest), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 here | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 here | punct |
| 3 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 here | cc |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 interest | det |
| 6 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pursuers | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pursuers | cop |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 pursuers | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pursuers | det |
| 10 | pursuers | pursuer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 here | parataxis |
| 11 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 10 pursuers | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 rather | fixed |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 rather | fixed |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pursued | det |
| 15 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 rather | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the interest | with the pursuers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pursue | participle | the interest not said here | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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