More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 11
Magic dresses Magic dresses (+ starlings on (honey-bird shoulders). finger and stud).
Who acts: Magic · What happens: dress · To what, where: Magic dresses
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Magic), 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 | Magic | Magic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 dresses | nsubj |
| 2 | dresses | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Magic | Magic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dresses | compound |
| 4 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dresses | obj |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 starlings | punct |
| 6 | + | + | SYM | _ | 7 starlings | cc |
| 7 | starlings | starling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dresses | appos |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 shoulders | case |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 shoulders | punct |
| 10 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bird | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 honey | punct |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shoulders | compound |
| 13 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 starlings | nmod |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 starlings | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 finger | punct |
| 16 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dresses | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stud | cc |
| 18 | stud | stud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 finger | conj |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 finger | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dresses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | present | Magic | Magic dresses | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Patient |
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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