More English Fairy Tales, LXXV. Tamlane, sentence 3
Child in his _Eng. and Scotch Ballads_, i., 335-58.
Who acts: Child · What happens: scotch · To what, where: Ballads
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 (Child), 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 | Child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Scotch | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Eng | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Eng | nmod:poss |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Eng | punct |
| 5 | Eng | eng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Child | nmod |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Scotch | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Scotch | cc |
| 8 | Scotch | scotch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | Ballads | ballad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Scotch | obj |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Scotch | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 i. | punct |
| 12 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 Scotch | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 335-58 | punct |
| 14 | 335-58 | 335-58 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 i. | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Scotch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scotch | infinitive | Child in Child's Eng | Ballads | tree rules |
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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