More English Fairy Tales, LXVI. the Buried Moon, sentence 4
Mrs. Balfour thinks the girl's own weird imagination had much to do with framing the details.
Who acts: Mrs., own weird imagination, girl · What happens: think, have, do, frame, imagine · To what, where: much, details · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Mrs., own weird imagination, girl), 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 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thinks | nsubj |
| 2 | Balfour | Balfour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mrs. | flat |
| 3 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 imagination | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 girl | case |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 imagination | amod |
| 8 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 imagination | amod |
| 9 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thinks | ccomp |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 had | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 much | acl |
| 14 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 15 framing | mark |
| 15 | framing | frame | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 do | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 details | det |
| 17 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 framing | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Mrs. | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | the girl's own weird imagination | much | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | frame | gerund | the details | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent detail=Destination | |||||
| 5 | imagine | the girl | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: poss=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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