More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 13
Meeting-place Meeting place threefold.
Who acts: place Meeting place · What happens: threefold
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 (place Meeting place), 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 | Meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 place | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meeting | punct |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 place | compound |
| 4 | Meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 place | compound |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | threefold | threefold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 place | acl:relcl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threefold | present | place Meeting place not said here | tree rules |
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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