More English Fairy Tales, LXVI. the Buried Moon, sentence 2
_--Mrs. Balfour's "Legends of the Lincolnshire Cars" in _Folk-Lore_, ii., somewhat abridged and the dialect removed.
What happens: abridge, remove · To what, where: dialect
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVI. the Buried Moon. 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 | 24 abridged | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 Legends | punct |
| 3 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Balfour | compound |
| 4 | Balfour | Balfour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Legends | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Balfour | case |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Legends | punct |
| 7 | Legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 _ | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Cars | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Cars | det |
| 10 | Lincolnshire | Lincolnshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Cars | compound |
| 11 | Cars | Car | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 Legends | conj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Cars | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Lore | case |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 Lore | punct |
| 15 | Folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Lore | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Folk | punct |
| 17 | Lore | Lore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Legends | nmod |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 Lore | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ii | punct |
| 20 | ii | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 17 Lore | flat |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 abridged | punct |
| 23 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 24 abridged | advmod |
| 24 | abridged | abridge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 removed | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 dialect | det |
| 27 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 removed | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 abridged | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 abridged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abridge | participle | somewhat property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | remove | participle · passive | the dialect | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=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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