More English Fairy Tales, LXXVIII. Puddock, Mousie, and Ratton, sentence 5

The nursery rhyme of the frog who would a-wooing go is clearly a variant of this, and has thus a sure pedigree of three hundred years; _cf.

Who acts: nursery rhyme, frog · What happens: be, have, rhyme · To what, where: variant, sure pedigree

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXVIII. Puddock, Mousie, and Ratton. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nursery rhyme, frog), 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	3 rhyme	det
2	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rhyme	compound
3	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 variant	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 frog	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 frog	det
6	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rhyme	nmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 variant	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 variant	aux
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 go	det
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 a	punct
11	wooing	wooing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	compound
12	go	go	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 variant	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 variant	cop
14	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	16 variant	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 variant	det
16	variant	variant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 this	case
18	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 variant	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 has	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 has	cc
21	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 variant	parataxis
22	thus	thus	ADV	_	25 pedigree	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 pedigree	det
24	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pedigree	amod
25	pedigree	pedigree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 has	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 years	case
27	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 hundred	compound
28	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 years	nummod
29	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 pedigree	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 cf	punct
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	32 cf	punct
32	cf	cf	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 has	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 variant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	would	the nursery rhyme of the frog	a variant	of this; clearly property	tree rules
2	have	present		a sure pedigree of hundred years		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pedigree=Patient
3	rhyme		the frog			nom rhyme «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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