More English Fairy Tales, LXVIII. the Children in the Wood, sentence 12
According to a writer in _3 Notes and Queries_, ix., 144, the traditional burial-place of the children is pointed out in Norfolk.
What happens: accord, point out
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVIII. the Children in the Wood. 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 writer | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 writer | det |
| 4 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pointed | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Notes | case |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 in | punct |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 Notes | nummod |
| 8 | Notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 writer | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Queries | cc |
| 10 | Queries | query | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Notes | conj |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Queries | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ix | punct |
| 13 | ix | ix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Notes | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 writer | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 144 | punct |
| 16 | 144 | 144 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 writer | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 place | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 place | det |
| 19 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 place | amod |
| 20 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 place | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 burial | punct |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 writer | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 children | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 children | det |
| 25 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 place | nmod |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 pointed | aux:pass |
| 27 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 pointed | compound:prt |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 Norfolk | case |
| 30 | Norfolk | Norfolk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 pointed | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 pointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | point out | present · passive | accord a writer in 3 Notes and Queries and ix and the traditional burial place of the children; in Norfolk | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: in norfolk=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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