More English Fairy Tales, LXXVII. News!, sentence 6
It occurs even earlier in Alfonsi's _Disciplina Clericalis_, No. xxx., at beginning of the twelfth century, among the _Fabliaux_, and in Bebel, _Werke_, iii., 71, whence probably it was reintroduced into England.
Who acts: mule · What happens: occur, reintroduce, begin · To what, where: Bebel, mule, England, twelfth century
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 (mule), 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 | 2 occurs | nsubj |
| 2 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 earlier | advmod |
| 4 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 occurs | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Disciplina | case |
| 6 | Alfonsi | Alfonsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Disciplina | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Alfonsi | case |
| 8 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Disciplina | compound |
| 9 | Disciplina | Disciplina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 earlier | obl |
| 10 | Clericalis | Clericalis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Disciplina | flat |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Disciplina | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 xxx | punct |
| 13 | No. | no. | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 xxx | det |
| 14 | xxx | xxx | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Disciplina | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 occurs | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 beginning | punct |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 beginning | case |
| 18 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 occurs | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 century | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 century | det |
| 21 | twelfth | twelfth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 century | amod |
| 22 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 beginning | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Fabliaux | punct |
| 24 | among | among | ADP | _ | 27 Fabliaux | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Fabliaux | det |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 Fabliaux | punct |
| 27 | Fabliaux | Fabliaux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 occurs | parataxis |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 Fabliaux | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Bebel | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Bebel | cc |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 Bebel | case |
| 32 | Bebel | Bebel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 occurs | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Bebel | punct |
| 34 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 Werke | punct |
| 35 | Werke | Werke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Bebel | flat |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 Werke | punct |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 iii | punct |
| 38 | iii | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 35 Werke | appos |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 Werke | punct |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 71 | punct |
| 41 | 71 | 71 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 Werke | list |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 reintroduced | punct |
| 43 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 47 reintroduced | advmod |
| 44 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 47 reintroduced | advmod |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 reintroduced | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 reintroduced | aux:pass |
| 47 | reintroduced | reintroduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 Bebel | acl |
| 48 | into | into | ADP | _ | 49 England | case |
| 49 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 reintroduced | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 occurs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | present | mule | Bebel | early property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in bebel=Location | |||
| 2 | reintroduce | past · passive | mule | England | probably, whence property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | begin | the twelfth century | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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