More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 17

Flight threefold. helpful helpful animal animal. mother.

Who acts: you · What happens: flight · To what, where: threefold helpful helpful animal animal

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 (you), 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	Flight	flight	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	threefold	threefold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animal	amod
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 threefold	punct
4	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animal	amod
5	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animal	amod
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 animal	compound
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Flight	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Flight	punct
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Flight	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Flight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flight	imperative	you not said here	threefold helpful helpful animal animal				mother obl	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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