More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 47
_Magic dresses--Meeting-place (Church)--Flight--Lost Shoe--Shoe Marriage-test--Mutilated foot--False Bride--_Bird witness--Happy Marriage_, follow one another with exemplary regularity in all four (six) versions.
Who acts: _ Magic · What happens: dress, lose, mutilate, follow · To what, where: Meeting place, one
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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Magic | compound |
| 2 | Magic | Magic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dresses | nsubj |
| 3 | dresses | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 place | punct |
| 5 | Meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 place | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Meeting | punct |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dresses | obj |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 Church | punct |
| 9 | Church | Church | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 place | appos |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 Church | punct |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 Flight | punct |
| 12 | Flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 place | conj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 Shoe | punct |
| 14 | Lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 Shoe | amod |
| 15 | Shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Flight | appos |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 test | punct |
| 17 | Shoe | Shoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 test | compound |
| 18 | Marriage | Marriage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Shoe | flat |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 test | punct |
| 20 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Shoe | conj |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 foot | punct |
| 22 | Mutilated | mutilate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 foot | amod |
| 23 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 test | appos |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 Bride | punct |
| 25 | False | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Bride | amod |
| 26 | Bride | Bride | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 foot | appos |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 witness | punct |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 witness | punct |
| 29 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 witness | compound |
| 30 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Shoe | conj |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 Marriage | punct |
| 32 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Marriage | amod |
| 33 | Marriage | Marriage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 witness | appos |
| 34 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 place | punct |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 follow | punct |
| 36 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 dresses | parataxis |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 follow | obj |
| 38 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 one | fixed |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 regularity | case |
| 40 | exemplary | exemplary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 regularity | amod |
| 41 | regularity | regularity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 follow | obl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 four | case |
| 43 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 four | det |
| 44 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 versions | nummod |
| 45 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 46 six | punct |
| 46 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 four | conj |
| 47 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 46 six | punct |
| 48 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 regularity | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dresses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | present | _ Magic | Meeting place and Flight | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | mutilate | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | follow | infinitive | one | with exemplary regularity four versions | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
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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