More English Fairy Tales, LXXIX. Little Bull-calf, sentence 5
_--The Perseus and Andromeda incident is frequent in folk-tales; see my List of Incidents _sub voce_ "Fight with Dragon." "
Who acts: Perseus incident, my · What happens: be, see, list · To what, where: folk tales, List, Incidents
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: who acts (Perseus incident, my), 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 | _ | 9 frequent | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 frequent | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 incident | det |
| 4 | Perseus | Perseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 incident | compound |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Andromeda | cc |
| 6 | Andromeda | Andromeda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Perseus | conj |
| 7 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 frequent | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 frequent | cop |
| 9 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 tales | case |
| 11 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tales | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 folk | punct |
| 13 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 frequent | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 frequent | parataxis |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 List | nmod:poss |
| 17 | List | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Incidents | case |
| 19 | Incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 List | nmod |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 voce | punct |
| 21 | sub | sub | ADV | _ | 22 voce | compound |
| 22 | voce | voce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Incidents | conj |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 Fight | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Fight | punct |
| 25 | Fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 Dragon | case |
| 27 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Fight | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 frequent | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 frequent | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 frequent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Perseus incident | folk tales | frequent property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | infinitive | my List of Incidents and sub voce | Fight with Dragon obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer list=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | list | my | Incidents and sub voce | nom list «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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