More English Fairy Tales, LXXVI. the Stars in the Sky, sentence 2
_--Mrs. Balfour's old nurse, now in New Zealand.
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXVI. the Stars in the Sky. 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 nurse | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 nurse | punct |
| 3 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Balfour | compound |
| 4 | Balfour | Balfour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Balfour | case |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 nurse | amod |
| 7 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Zealand | punct |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 Zealand | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Zealand | case |
| 11 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Zealand | flat |
| 12 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 nurse | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 nurse | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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