More English Fairy Tales, LXXV. Tamlane, sentence 14
Was it not rather that he should not henceforth see Burd Janet?--a subtle touch of jealousy.
Who acts: eyne · What happens: not be, touch · To what, where: jealousy
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXV. Tamlane. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyne), 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 see | advmod |
| 4 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 10 see | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 see | advmod |
| 9 | henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 10 see | advmod |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | Burd | Burd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obj |
| 12 | Janet | Janet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Burd | flat |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 Burd | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 touch | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 touch | det |
| 16 | subtle | subtle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 touch | amod |
| 17 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Burd | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 jealousy | case |
| 19 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 touch | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | should · past | eyne | henceforth, see property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | touch | jealousy | nom touch «event 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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