More English Fairy Tales, LXII. Scrapefoot, sentence 2

_--Collected by Mr. Batten from Mrs. H., who heard it from her mother over forty years ago.

Who acts: Batten · What happens: collect, hear · To what, where: Source

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXII. Scrapefoot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Batten), 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	_	3 Collected	punct
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	3 Collected	punct
3	Collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 Batten	case
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Batten	nmod:desc
6	Batten	Batten	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Collected	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 Mrs.	case
8	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Batten	nmod
9	H.	H.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Batten	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Batten	acl:relcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heard	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 mother	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obl
17	over	over	ADP	_	19 years	case
18	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 years	nummod
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ago	obl:unmarked
20	ago	ago	ADV	_	12 heard	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 Collected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collect	participle						by Batten Mr. from Mrs.	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	hear	past	Batten Mr. from Mrs.	Source				from Mrs.'s mother; ago property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Topic from mother=Source

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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