More English Fairy Tales, LVII. the Wee Bannock, sentence 8
_Spurtle_ = spoon; _whins_ = gorse.
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 spoon | nsubj |
| 2 | Spurtle | Spurtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | flat |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoon | punct |
| 4 | = | = | SYM | _ | 5 spoon | punct |
| 5 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 whins | punct |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 whins | punct |
| 8 | whins | whin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spoon | appos |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 whins | punct |
| 10 | = | = | SYM | _ | 11 gorse | punct |
| 11 | gorse | gorse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whins | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoon | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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