More English Fairy Tales, LVII. the Wee Bannock, sentence 7
_Heckling_ is combing it with a _heckle_ or wooden comb; _binnings_ are halters for cattle made of _sprit_ or rushes.
Who acts: Heckling, binnings, sprit · What happens: heckle, comb, be, make, rush · To what, where: _, flax, halters, cattle
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 (Heckling, binnings, sprit), 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 | _ | 5 combing | punct |
| 2 | Heckling | heckle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 combing | csubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Heckling | obj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 combing | aux |
| 5 | combing | comb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 combing | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 heckle | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 heckle | det |
| 9 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 heckle | amod |
| 10 | heckle | heckle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 combing | obl |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 heckle | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 comb | cc |
| 13 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 comb | amod |
| 14 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heckle | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 halters | punct |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 binnings | punct |
| 17 | binnings | binning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 halters | nsubj |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 binnings | punct |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 halters | cop |
| 20 | halters | halter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 combing | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 cattle | case |
| 22 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 halters | nmod |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 cattle | acl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 made | obl |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 sprit | punct |
| 26 | sprit | sprit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 halters | conj |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 sprit | punct |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 rushes | cc |
| 29 | rushes | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 sprit | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 combing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heckle | gerund | _ | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | comb | present · progressive | Heckling | flax | with a _ heckle or wooden comb | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | is a | present | binnings | halters and sprit | for cattle | tree rules | |||
| 4 | make | participle | cattle not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 5 | rush | present | sprit not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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