More English Fairy Tales, LXXIII. Rushen Coatie, sentence 23
66-8, "Rashie Coat," though Miss Cox assimilates them to Type B. Catskin; and (10) a variant of Dr. Blind's version, unknown to Miss Cox, but given in 7 _Notes and Queries_, x., 463 (Dumbartonshire).
Who acts: Miss, version · What happens: assimilate, type, give, vary · To what, where: versions, 10, 7
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXIII. Rushen Coatie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miss, version), 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 | 66-8 | 66-8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Rashie | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Rashie | punct |
| 4 | Rashie | Rashie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 66-8 | appos |
| 5 | Coat | Coat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Rashie | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Rashie | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 assimilates | punct |
| 8 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 assimilates | mark |
| 9 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 assimilates | nsubj |
| 10 | Cox | Cox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Miss | flat |
| 11 | assimilates | assimilate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 66-8 | parataxis |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 assimilates | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 Type | mark |
| 14 | Type | type | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 assimilates | xcomp |
| 15 | B. | b. | ADP | _ | 16 Catskin | case |
| 16 | Catskin | Catskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Type | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 given | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 given | cc |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 10 | punct |
| 20 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 given | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 10 | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 variant | det |
| 23 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 10 | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 version | case |
| 25 | Dr. | Dr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Blind | nmod:desc |
| 26 | Blind | Blind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 version | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 Blind | case |
| 28 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 variant | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 unknown | punct |
| 30 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 version | amod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 Miss | case |
| 32 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 unknown | obl |
| 33 | Cox | Cox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Miss | flat |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 given | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 given | cc |
| 36 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 assimilates | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 7 | case |
| 38 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 given | obl |
| 39 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 40 Notes | punct |
| 40 | Notes | Note | PROPN | Number=Plur | 36 given | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 Queries | cc |
| 42 | Queries | query | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 Notes | conj |
| 43 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 40 Notes | punct |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 x | punct |
| 45 | x | x | INTJ | _ | 48 463 | discourse |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 x | punct |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 463 | punct |
| 48 | 463 | 463 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 given | obl |
| 49 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 50 Dumbartonshire | punct |
| 50 | Dumbartonshire | Dumbartonshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 463 | appos |
| 51 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 50 Dumbartonshire | punct |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 66-8 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assimilate | present | Miss | versions = version | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | type | to-infinitive | Miss not said here | b. Catskin | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give | participle · passive | 10 | 7 | 463 obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient note=Theme | |||
| 4 | vary | Blind Dr.'s version | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=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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