More English Fairy Tales, LXXX. the Wee Wee Mannie, sentence 2
_--From Mrs. Balfour's old nurse.
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXX. the Wee Wee Mannie. 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 | _ | 8 nurse | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 nurse | punct |
| 3 | From | from | ADP | _ | 8 nurse | case |
| 4 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Balfour | compound |
| 5 | Balfour | Balfour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Balfour | case |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 nurse | amod |
| 8 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 nurse | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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