More English Fairy Tales, LXXXI. Habetrot and Scantlie Mab, sentence 4
I have abridged and to some extent rewritten.
Who acts: I · What happens: abridge, rewrite
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXI. Habetrot and Scantlie Mab. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 abridged | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 abridged | aux |
| 3 | abridged | abridge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rewritten | cc |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 extent | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 extent | det |
| 7 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rewritten | obl |
| 8 | rewritten | rewrite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 abridged | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 abridged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abridge | present · perfect | I | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | rewrite | participle | I not said here | to some extent | tree rules |
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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