More English Fairy Tales, English Variants of Cinderella, sentence 44
Mutilated foot (housewife's daughter).
What happens: mutilate
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: 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 | Mutilated | mutilate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 foot | amod |
| 2 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 daughter | punct |
| 4 | housewife | housewife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 housewife | case |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 foot | conj |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 daughter | punct |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 foot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mutilate | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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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