More English Fairy Tales, LXXIV. King O' Cats, sentence 5
_--Five variants of this quaint legend have been collected in England: (1) Halliwell, _Pop.
Who acts: quaint legend · What happens: collect, vary · To what, where: Five variants, England
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: who acts (quaint legend), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 collected | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 variants | punct |
| 3 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 variants | nummod |
| 4 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 collected | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 legend | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 legend | det |
| 7 | quaint | quaint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 legend | amod |
| 8 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 variants | nmod |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 collected | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 collected | aux:pass |
| 11 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 England | case |
| 13 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 collected | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 1 | punct |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 1 | punct |
| 16 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 collected | obl |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 1 | punct |
| 18 | Halliwell | Halliwell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 collected | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Pop | punct |
| 20 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Pop | compound |
| 21 | Pop | Pop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Halliwell | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | present · perfect · passive | Five variants of this quaint legend | England | 1 obl; Halliwell _ Pop obl | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | vary | this quaint legend | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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