More English Fairy Tales, LXIX. the Hobyahs, sentence 3
Proudfit as current in a family deriving from Perth.
Who acts: family · What happens: derive · To what, where: Perth
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXIX. the Hobyahs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family), 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 | Proudfit | Proudfit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 current | nsubj |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 current | case |
| 3 | current | current | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 family | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 family | det |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 current | obl |
| 7 | deriving | derive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 family | acl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Perth | case |
| 9 | Perth | Perth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 deriving | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 current | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derive | gerund | a family not said here | Perth | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from perth=Material |
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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