More English Fairy Tales, LXXIII. Rushen Coatie, sentence 5
I give my composite the title "Rushen Coatie," to differentiate it from any of the Scotch variants, and for the purposes of a folk-lore experiment.
Who acts: I, lore experiment · What happens: give, differentiate, purpose · To what, where: composite, title
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 (I, lore experiment), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 give | nsubj |
| 2 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 composite | nmod:poss |
| 4 | composite | composite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 give | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 title | det |
| 6 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 give | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Rushen | punct |
| 8 | Rushen | Rushen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 title | appos |
| 9 | Coatie | Coatie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Rushen | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 differentiate | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 differentiate | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 differentiate | mark |
| 13 | differentiate | differentiate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 give | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 differentiate | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 any | case |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 differentiate | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 variants | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 variants | det |
| 19 | Scotch | scotch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 variants | amod |
| 20 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 any | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 purposes | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 purposes | cc |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 purposes | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 purposes | det |
| 25 | purposes | purpose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 give | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 experiment | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 experiment | det |
| 28 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lore | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 folk | punct |
| 30 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 experiment | compound |
| 31 | experiment | experiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 purposes | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | I | my composite | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent composite=Recipient title=Theme | ||||
| 2 | differentiate | to-infinitive | I not said here | title | from any | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme from any=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | purpose | a lore experiment | nom purpose «cognition 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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