More English Fairy Tales, LXIV. the Old Witch, sentence 5
It is clearly parallel with the Grimms' _Frau Holle_, where the good girl is rewarded and the bad punished in a similar way.
Who acts: memory · What happens: be, reward, punish · To what, where: good girl, bad, similar way
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 (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 parallel | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 parallel | cop |
| 3 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 4 parallel | advmod |
| 4 | parallel | parallel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 Grimms | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Grimms | det |
| 7 | Grimms | Grimm | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 parallel | obl |
| 8 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 7 Grimms | case |
| 9 | _ | _ | ADP | _ | 10 Frau | case |
| 10 | Frau | Frau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Grimms | nmod |
| 11 | Holle | Holle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Frau | flat |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 parallel | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rewarded | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 rewarded | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 girl | amod |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rewarded | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 rewarded | aux:pass |
| 19 | rewarded | reward | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 parallel | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 punished | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bad | det |
| 22 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 punished | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 rewarded | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 way | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 way | det |
| 26 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 way | amod |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 punished | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 parallel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | memory | with the Grimms _ Frau; clearly, parallel property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reward | present · passive | the good girl | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | punish | participle · passive | the bad | a similar way | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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