More English Fairy Tales, LXXVI. the Stars in the Sky, sentence 3
The original is in broad Scots, which I have anglicised.
Who acts: original · What happens: be, anglicise · To what, where: broad Scots
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: who acts (original), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 original | det |
| 2 | original | original | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Scots | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Scots | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Scots | case |
| 5 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Scots | amod |
| 6 | Scots | Scot | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 anglicised | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 anglicised | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 anglicised | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 anglicised | aux |
| 11 | anglicised | anglicise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Scots | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Scots | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the original | broad Scots | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | anglicise | present · perfect · passive | broad Scots | 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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