More English Fairy Tales, LXVII. a Son of Adam, sentence 7
It occurs in Swift and in modern Italian folk-lore.
Who acts: xiii · What happens: occur · To what, where: Swift
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVII. a Son of Adam. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (xiii), 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 | 2 occurs | nsubj |
| 2 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Swift | case |
| 4 | Swift | Swift | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 occurs | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lore | cc |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 lore | case |
| 7 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lore | amod |
| 8 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lore | amod |
| 9 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lore | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 folk | punct |
| 11 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Swift | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 occurs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | present | xiii | Swift and modern Italian folk lore | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in swift=Location |
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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