More English Fairy Tales, LXVIII. the Children in the Wood, sentence 13
The ballad was known before Percy, as it is mentioned in the _Spectator_, Nos.
What happens: know, mention · To what, where: ballad, place, Spectator
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ballad | det |
| 2 | ballad | ballad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 known | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | aux:pass |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 Percy | case |
| 6 | Percy | Percy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 known | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mentioned | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 mentioned | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 mentioned | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 mentioned | aux:pass |
| 11 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 known | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Spectator | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Spectator | det |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 Spectator | punct |
| 15 | Spectator | spectator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mentioned | obl |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 mentioned | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Nos | punct |
| 18 | Nos | Nos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 known | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | the ballad | before Percy | Nos obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | mention speech: other | present · passive | place | the Spectator | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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