More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 29
Flight Substituted Substituted bride threefold. bride.
Who acts: Flight, Substituted bride · What happens: substitute, threefold · To what, where: bride
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 (Flight, Substituted bride), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Substituted | nsubj |
| 2 | Substituted | substitute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Substituted | substitute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bride | amod |
| 4 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 threefold | nsubj |
| 5 | threefold | threefold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Substituted | ccomp |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Substituted | punct |
| 7 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Substituted | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Substituted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | substitute | past | Flight | bride | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | substitute | participle | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | threefold | present | Substituted bride | 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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