More English Fairy Tales, LXXII. King John and the Abbot, sentence 4
Answer: Twenty-nine pence--one less, I ween, than the Lord.
Who acts: I · What happens: ween
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 (I), 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 | Answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 pence | punct |
| 3 | Twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 nine | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Twenty | punct |
| 5 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 pence | nummod |
| 6 | pence | pence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Answer | appos |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 less | punct |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 less | nummod |
| 9 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 pence | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ween | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 ween | nsubj |
| 12 | ween | ween | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 less | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Lord | punct |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 Lord | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Lord | det |
| 16 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ween | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ween | present | I | than the Lord | 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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