More English Fairy Tales, LXXIX. Little Bull-calf, sentence 6
Cheese squeezing," as a test of prowess, is also common, as in "Jack the Giant Killer" and elsewhere (Köhler, _Jahrbuch_, vii., 252).
Who acts: Cheese squeezing · What happens: be, test · To what, where: prowess
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 (Cheese squeezing), 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 | Cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 squeezing | compound |
| 2 | squeezing | squeezing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 common | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 squeezing | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 squeezing | punct |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 test | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 test | det |
| 7 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 squeezing | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 prowess | case |
| 9 | prowess | prowess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 test | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 squeezing | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 common | cop |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 common | advmod |
| 13 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Jack | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 Jack | case |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Jack | case |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Jack | punct |
| 18 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 common | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Killer | det |
| 20 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Killer | amod |
| 21 | Killer | Killer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Jack | conj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Jack | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 elsewhere | cc |
| 24 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 13 common | conj |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 Köhler | punct |
| 26 | Köhler | Köhler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 common | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Jahrbuch | punct |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 Jahrbuch | punct |
| 29 | Jahrbuch | Jahrbuch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Köhler | appos |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 Jahrbuch | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 vii | punct |
| 32 | vii | vii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Köhler | appos |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 Köhler | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 252 | punct |
| 35 | 252 | 252 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 Köhler | list |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 Köhler | punct |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 common | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Cheese squeezing as a test of prowess | Köhler obl; common property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | test in a quote | prowess | nom test «cognition 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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