More English Fairy Tales, LXXVII. News!, sentence 12
It is characteristic that the German version finishes up with a loss of honour, the English climax being loss of fortune.
Who acts: East, German version, English climax · What happens: be, finish up · To what, where: characteristic, loss
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXVII. News!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (East, German version, English climax), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 characteristic | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 characteristic | cop |
| 3 | characteristic | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 finishes | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 version | det |
| 6 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 version | amod |
| 7 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 finishes | nsubj |
| 8 | finishes | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 characteristic | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 finishes | compound:prt |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 loss | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 loss | det |
| 12 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 finishes | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 honour | case |
| 14 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 loss | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 loss | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 climax | det |
| 17 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 climax | amod |
| 18 | climax | climax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 loss | nsubj |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 loss | cop |
| 20 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 honour | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 fortune | case |
| 22 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 loss | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 characteristic | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | East | characteristic | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | finish up | present | the German version | with a loss of honour and loss | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with loss=Subeventuality | ||||
| 3 | is a | gerund | the English climax | loss | of fortune | 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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