More English Fairy Tales, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham, sentence 10
1110-11, where the same story is told of a peasant of Dort, in Holland, who was similarly directed to go to Kempen Bridge.
What happens: tell, direct, go · To what, where: same story, Holland, Kempen Bridge · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham. 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.
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 | 1110-11 | 1110-11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 told | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 story | amod |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | aux:pass |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 1110-11 | parataxis |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 peasant | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 peasant | det |
| 11 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Dort | case |
| 13 | Dort | Dort | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 peasant | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Holland | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Holland | case |
| 16 | Holland | Holland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 told | iobj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 directed | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 directed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 directed | aux:pass |
| 20 | similarly | similarly | ADV | _ | 21 directed | advmod |
| 21 | directed | direct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 Holland | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 directed | xcomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Bridge | case |
| 25 | Kempen | Kempen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Bridge | compound |
| 26 | Bridge | Bridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 1110-11 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | the same story | Holland | of a peasant of Dort | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient holland=Topic | |||
| 2 | direct | past · passive | Holland | similarly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | Kempen Bridge | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bridge=Initial_Location |
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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