More English Fairy Tales, LXXIII. Rushen Coatie, sentence 24
Mr. Clouston has remarks on the raven as omen-bird in his notes to Mrs. Saxby's _Birds of Omen in Shetland_ (privately printed, 1893).
Who acts: Clouston, remarks · What happens: have, print, note · To what, where: remarks, raven, 1893
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 (Clouston, remarks), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Clouston | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Clouston | Clouston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 raven | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 raven | det |
| 7 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remarks | nmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 bird | case |
| 9 | omen | omen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bird | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 omen | punct |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 raven | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 notes | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 notes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bird | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Birds | case |
| 16 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Saxby | compound |
| 17 | Saxby | Saxby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Birds | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Saxby | case |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 Birds | punct |
| 20 | Birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 notes | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Omen | case |
| 22 | Omen | Omen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Birds | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Shetland | case |
| 24 | Shetland | Shetland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Omen | nmod |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 printed | punct |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 printed | punct |
| 27 | privately | privately | ADV | _ | 28 printed | advmod |
| 28 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 remarks | acl | |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 1893 | punct |
| 30 | 1893 | 1893 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 printed | obj |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 1893 | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Clouston Mr. | remarks | the raven as omen bird in Clouston's notes to Mrs. Saxby's Birds of Omen in Shetland | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remark=Patient | |||
| 2 | participle | remarks not said here | 1893 | privately property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1893=Theme | ||||
| 3 | note | Clouston | to Mrs. Saxby's Birds of Omen in Shetland | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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