More English Fairy Tales, LXVIII. the Children in the Wood, sentence 15
_Remarks_.--The only "fairy" touch--but what a touch!--the pall of leaves collected by the robins.
Who acts: fairy touch · What happens: touch, collect, pall · To what, where: leaves
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: who acts (fairy touch), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Remarks | punct |
| 2 | Remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 touch | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 10 touch | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fairy | det |
| 6 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fairy | amod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 fairy | punct |
| 8 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 touch | compound |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 fairy | punct |
| 10 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Remarks | nmod |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 touch | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 touch | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 touch | nsubj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 touch | det |
| 15 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 touch | nmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 touch | punct |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 pall | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pall | det |
| 19 | pall | pall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 touch | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 leaves | case |
| 21 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 pall | nmod |
| 22 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 leaves | acl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 robins | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 robins | det |
| 25 | robins | robin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 collected | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Remarks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | fairy touch and the pall of leaves | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | collect | participle | leaves not said here | by the robins | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pall | leaves | nom pall «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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