More English Fairy Tales, LXIV. the Old Witch, sentence 4
_--I have a dim memory of hearing a similar tale in Australia in 1860.
Who acts: I, dim memory · What happens: have, hear · To what, where: dim memory, similar tale, Australia
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXIV. the Old Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, dim memory), 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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 memory | det |
| 6 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 memory | amod |
| 7 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 hearing | mark |
| 9 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 memory | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tale | det |
| 11 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tale | amod |
| 12 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hearing | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Australia | case |
| 14 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hearing | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 1860 | case |
| 16 | 1860 | 1860 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 hearing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | a dim memory | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | a dim memory not said here | a similar tale | Australia | in 1860 | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus |
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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