More English Fairy Tales, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham, sentence 14
Here a young spendthrift of Bagdad is warned in a dream to repair to Cairo, with the usual result of being referred back.
What happens: warn, repair, refer back · To what, where: young spendthrift, dream, Cairo, usual result · 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 warned | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 spendthrift | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spendthrift | amod |
| 4 | spendthrift | spendthrift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 warned | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Bagdad | case |
| 6 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spendthrift | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 warned | aux:pass |
| 8 | warned | warn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 dream | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dream | det |
| 11 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 warned | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 repair | mark |
| 13 | repair | repair | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 warned | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Cairo | case |
| 15 | Cairo | Cairo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 repair | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 result | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 result | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 result | det |
| 19 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 result | amod |
| 20 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 repair | obl |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 referred | mark |
| 22 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 referred | aux:pass |
| 23 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 result | acl |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 referred | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 warned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | present · passive | a young spendthrift of Bagdad | a dream; here | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | repair | to-infinitive | Cairo | with the usual result | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with result=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | refer back | gerund · passive | the usual result not said here | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-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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