More English Fairy Tales, LXXII. King John and the Abbot, sentence 10

Pauli was a fifteenth century worthy or unworthy.

Who acts: Pauli · What happens: be · To what, where: fifteenth century

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXII. King John and the Abbot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pauli), 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	Pauli	Pauli	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 century	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 century	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 century	det
4	fifteenth	fifteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 century	amod
5	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 century	amod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 unworthy	cc
8	unworthy	unworthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 worthy	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 century	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Pauli	a fifteenth century					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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