More English Fairy Tales, LXXII. King John and the Abbot, sentence 2
_--"Prosed" from the well-known ballad in Percy.
What happens: prose, know · To what, where: known 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: 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 | _ | 4 Prosed | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 Prosed | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Prosed | punct |
| 4 | Prosed | prose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Prosed | punct |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 ballad | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ballad | det |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 known | advmod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 well | punct |
| 10 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ballad | amod |
| 11 | ballad | ballad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Prosed | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Percy | case |
| 13 | Percy | Percy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ballad | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Prosed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prose in a quote | participle | the known ballad in Percy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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