More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 67
And more important still, it is a touch which vitalises the other variants in which the helpful animal is rather dragged in by the horns.
Who acts: touch · What happens: be, vitalise, drag in · To what, where: touch, other variants, helpful 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 (touch), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 important | cc |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 important | advmod |
| 3 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 important | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 touch | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 touch | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 touch | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 touch | det |
| 9 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 important | parataxis |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 vitalises | nsubj |
| 11 | vitalises | vitalise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 touch | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 variants | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 variants | amod |
| 14 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 vitalises | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 dragged | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 animal | det |
| 18 | helpful | helpful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 animal | amod |
| 19 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dragged | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 dragged | aux:pass |
| 21 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 22 dragged | advmod |
| 22 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 variants | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 dragged | compound:prt |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 horns | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 horns | det |
| 26 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 dragged | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 important | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | touch | a touch | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | vitalise | present | a touch | the other variants | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drag in | present · passive | the helpful animal | the other variants | by the horns | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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