More English Fairy Tales, LXX. a Pottle O' Brains, sentence 4
_--The fool's wife is clearly related to the Clever Lass of "Gobborn Seer," where see Notes.
Who acts: wife · What happens: be, see · To what, where: Notes
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXX. a Pottle O' Brains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | _ | 9 related | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 related | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fool | det |
| 4 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 fool | case |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 related | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 related | cop |
| 8 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 9 related | advmod |
| 9 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Lass | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Lass | det |
| 12 | Clever | Clever | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Lass | compound |
| 13 | Lass | Lass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 related | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Seer | case |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Seer | punct |
| 16 | Gobborn | Gobborn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Seer | compound |
| 17 | Seer | seer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Lass | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 see | advmod |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 related | conj |
| 22 | Notes | Note | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 see | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the fool's wife | to the Clever Lass of Gobborn Seer; clearly, related property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | the fool's wife not said here | Notes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus |
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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