More English Fairy Tales, LXVIII. the Children in the Wood, sentence 4
As Mr. Allingham remarks, it is the best of the ballads of the pedestrian order.
Who acts: Allingham, form · What happens: remark, be
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 (Allingham, form), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 remarks | mark |
| 2 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Allingham | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Allingham | Allingham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 remarks | nsubj |
| 4 | remarks | remark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 best | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 remarks | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 best | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 best | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 best | det |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 ballads | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ballads | det |
| 12 | ballads | ballad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 best | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 order | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 order | det |
| 15 | pedestrian | pedestrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 order | amod |
| 16 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ballads | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 best | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remark speech: assert | present | Allingham Mr. | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | form | of the ballads of the pedestrian order; good property | tree rules |
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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