More English Fairy Tales, LXXII. King John and the Abbot, sentence 13
Child in his comments on the ballad, _English and Scotch Ballads_, i, 403-14.
Who acts: Child · What happens: comment · To what, where: ballad
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 (Child), 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 | Child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 comments | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 comments | nmod:poss |
| 4 | comments | comment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Child | nmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ballad | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ballad | det |
| 7 | ballad | ballad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comments | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ballads | punct |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ballads | punct |
| 10 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Ballads | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Scotch | cc |
| 12 | Scotch | scotch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 English | conj |
| 13 | Ballads | ballad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 comments | conj |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ballads | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 i | punct |
| 16 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Child | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 403-14 | punct |
| 18 | 403-14 | 403-14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Child | appos |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Child | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comment | Child | the ballad | nom comment «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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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