More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 2
(by stepmother (by elder king's wife. and sisters). sisters).
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: 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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 stepmother | punct |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 stepmother | case |
| 3 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 wife | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 wife | case |
| 6 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 king | amod |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stepmother | appos |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wife | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sisters | cc |
| 12 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wife | conj |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 wife | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wife | punct |
| 15 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wife | conj |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 wife | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stepmother | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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