More English Fairy Tales, English Variants of Cinderella, sentence 28
Dinner cooked Task performing (by helpful animal. animal).
Who acts: Task · What happens: cook, perform · To what, where: Dinner, helpful animal
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, English Variants of Cinderella. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Task), 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 | Dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Dinner | acl |
| 3 | Task | Task | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 performing | nsubj |
| 4 | performing | perform | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 cooked | advcl |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 animal | punct |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 animal | case |
| 7 | helpful | helpful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 animal | amod |
| 8 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 performing | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 animal | punct |
| 10 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 animal | appos |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 animal | punct |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dinner | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | participle | Dinner not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | perform | gerund | Task | helpful animal | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
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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