More English Fairy Tales, LXII. Scrapefoot, sentence 4
_--It is clearly a variant of Southey's _Three Bears_ (No. xviii.).
Who acts: Source · What happens: be · To what, where: variant
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 (Source), 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 | _ | 7 variant | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 variant | punct |
| 3 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 variant | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 variant | cop |
| 5 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 7 variant | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 variant | det |
| 7 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Bears | case |
| 9 | Southey | Southey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Bears | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Southey | case |
| 11 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Bears | compound |
| 12 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 Bears | nummod |
| 13 | Bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 variant | nmod |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Bears | punct |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 xviii | punct |
| 16 | No. | no. | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 xviii | det |
| 17 | xviii | xviii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Bears | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 xviii | punct |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 xviii | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 variant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Source | a variant | of Southey's _ Three Bears and no. xviii; clearly property | tree rules |
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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