More English Fairy Tales, LXXIX. Little Bull-calf, sentence 2
_--_Gypsy Lore Journal_, iii., one of a number of tales told "In a Tent" to Mr. John Sampson.
What happens: tell · To what, where: tales, Tent · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXIX. Little Bull-calf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lore | punct |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lore | punct |
| 4 | Gypsy | gypsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Lore | amod |
| 5 | Lore | Lore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 one | nsubj |
| 6 | Journal | Journal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Lore | flat |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lore | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 iii | punct |
| 9 | iii | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 5 Lore | flat |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lore | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 number | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 number | det |
| 15 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tales | case |
| 17 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 number | nmod |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 tales | acl |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Tent | punct |
| 20 | In | in | ADP | _ | 22 Tent | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 Tent | det |
| 22 | Tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | obl |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Tent | punct |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 John | case |
| 25 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 John | nmod:desc |
| 26 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Tent | nmod |
| 27 | Sampson | Sampson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 John | flat |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | participle | tales not said here | a Tent to John Mr. | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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