More English Fairy Tales, LXVI. the Buried Moon, sentence 3
The story was derived from a little girl named Bratton, who declared she had heard it from her "grannie."
Who acts: Bratton, dialect · What happens: derive, name, declare, hear · To what, where: story, little girl, grannie
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: who acts (Bratton, dialect), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 derived | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 derived | aux:pass |
| 4 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 girl | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 derived | obl |
| 9 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 girl | acl |
| 10 | Bratton | Bratton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 named | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 declared | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 declared | nsubj |
| 13 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Bratton | acl:relcl |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 heard | aux |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 declared | xcomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 heard | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 grannie | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 grannie | nmod:poss |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 grannie | punct |
| 21 | grannie | grannie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heard | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 derived | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 derived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derive | past · passive | the story | from a little girl | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from girl=Material | ||||
| 2 | name | participle | a little girl not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past | Bratton | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hear | past · perfect | dialect | story | dialect's grannie | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Topic from grannie=Source |
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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