More English Fairy Tales, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham, sentence 5
Inquiring its meaning from a learned friend, he is told--
Who acts: name · What happens: inquire, learn, tell, mean · To what, where: meaning, Hearne · 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: who acts (name), 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 | Inquiring | inquire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 told | advcl |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 meaning | nmod:poss |
| 3 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Inquiring | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 friend | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 friend | det |
| 6 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 friend | amod |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Inquiring | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Inquiring | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 told | aux:pass |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | gerund | name's meaning | from a learned friend | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent meaning=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | Hearne | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | mean | name | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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