More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 64
This in some of the versions is left as a legacy by the heroine's dying mother.
Who acts: dying mother · What happens: leave, die · To what, where: This
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 (dying mother), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 left | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 some | case |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 1 This | nmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 versions | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 versions | det |
| 6 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 some | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | aux:pass |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 legacy | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 legacy | det |
| 11 | legacy | legacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 mother | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 heroine | det |
| 14 | heroine | heroine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 heroine | case |
| 16 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 mother | amod |
| 17 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present · passive | the heroine's dying mother | This | as a legacy | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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