More English Fairy Tales, LVII. the Wee Bannock, sentence 5
I owe the following to the kindness of the Rev. Mr. Todd Martin, of Belfast.
Who acts: I · What happens: owe, follow · To what, where: kindness
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 owe | nsubj |
| 2 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kindness | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 kindness | case |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 kindness | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kindness | det |
| 7 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 owe | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Martin | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Martin | det |
| 10 | Rev. | Rev. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Todd | compound |
| 11 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Todd | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Todd | Todd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Martin | compound |
| 13 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 kindness | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Belfast | punct |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Belfast | case |
| 16 | Belfast | Belfast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 kindness | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 owe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe | present | I | the kindness of the Todd Martin and Belfast | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent kindness=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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