More English Fairy Tales, LXX. a Pottle O' Brains, sentence 7
His adventures might be regarded as a sequel to the former ones.
Who acts: Lore · What happens: regard, adventure · To what, where: adventures, former ones
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 (Lore), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 2 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 regarded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 regarded | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 regarded | aux:pass |
| 5 | regarded | regard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 sequel | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sequel | det |
| 8 | sequel | sequel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 regarded | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 ones | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ones | det |
| 11 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ones | amod |
| 12 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 regarded | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 regarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regard | might · passive | Lore's adventures | the former ones | as a sequel | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme as sequel=Value | |||
| 2 | adventure | Lore | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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