More English Fairy Tales, LXXIV. King O' Cats, sentence 12
_--An interesting example of the spread and development of a simple anecdote throughout England.
What happens: exemplify, develop · To what, where: spread, simple anecdote
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXIV. King O' Cats. 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.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 example | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 example | punct |
| 3 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 example | det |
| 4 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 example | amod |
| 5 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 spread | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spread | det |
| 8 | spread | spread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 example | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 development | cc |
| 10 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spread | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 anecdote | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 anecdote | det |
| 13 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 anecdote | amod |
| 14 | anecdote | anecdote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 development | nmod |
| 15 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 16 England | case |
| 16 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 anecdote | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 example | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exemplify | the spread and development of a simple anecdote throughout England | nom example «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 2 | develop | a simple anecdote throughout England | nom development «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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