More English Fairy Tales, LXV. the Three Wishes, sentence 2
_--Steinberg's _Folk-Lore of Northamptonshire_, 1851, but entirely rewritten by Mr. Nutt, who has introduced from other variants one touch at the close--viz., the readiness of the wife to allow her husband to remain disfigured.
What happens: rewrite, introduce, allow, remain, disfigure · To what, where: Nutt, other variants, husband
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXV. the Three Wishes. 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 Lore | punct |
| 3 | Steinberg | Steinberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lore | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Steinberg | case |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Lore | punct |
| 6 | Folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Lore | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Folk | punct |
| 8 | Lore | Lore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Northamptonshire | case |
| 10 | Northamptonshire | Northamptonshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lore | nmod |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Lore | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 1851 | punct |
| 13 | 1851 | 1851 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 Lore | list |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rewritten | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 rewritten | cc |
| 16 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 17 rewritten | advmod |
| 17 | rewritten | rewrite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 1851 | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 Nutt | case |
| 19 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Nutt | nmod:desc |
| 20 | Nutt | Nutt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 rewritten | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 introduced | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 introduced | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 introduced | aux |
| 24 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 Nutt | acl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 variants | case |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 variants | amod |
| 27 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 introduced | obl |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 touch | nummod |
| 29 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 variants | nmod:unmarked |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 close | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 close | det |
| 32 | close | close | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 touch | nmod |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 34 viz | punct |
| 34 | viz | viz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 close | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 Nutt | punct |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 readiness | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 readiness | det |
| 38 | readiness | readiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Nutt | appos |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 wife | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 wife | det |
| 41 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 readiness | nmod |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 allow | mark |
| 43 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 rewritten | advcl |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 husband | nmod:poss |
| 45 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 allow | iobj |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 remain | mark |
| 47 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 allow | xcomp |
| 48 | disfigured | disfigure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 remain | xcomp |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rewrite | participle | by Nutt Mr.; entirely property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | introduce | present · perfect · passive | Nutt Mr. | other variants one touch at the close and viz | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | allow | to-infinitive | wife's husband | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer husband=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | remain not said to happen | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | disfigure | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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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