More English Fairy Tales, LXXVI. the Stars in the Sky, sentence 6
_ Mr. John Payne's "Sir Edward's Questing" in his _Songs of Life and Death_.
Who acts: Life · What happens: sing
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 (Life), 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 | _ | 3 John | punct |
| 2 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 John | nmod:desc |
| 3 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | Payne | Payne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 John | flat |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Payne | case |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Questing | punct |
| 7 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Edward | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Edward | Edward | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Questing | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Edward | case |
| 10 | Questing | questing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 John | appos |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Questing | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Songs | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Songs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 Songs | punct |
| 15 | Songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Questing | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Life | case |
| 17 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Songs | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Death | cc |
| 19 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Life | conj |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Questing | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 John | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing | Life and Death | nom song «communication 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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