More English Fairy Tales, LXXXI. Habetrot and Scantlie Mab, sentence 7
The latter part is more novel, and is best compared with the Grimms' _Spinners_.
Who acts: latter part · What happens: be, compare
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 (latter part), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 part | det |
| 2 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 part | amod |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 novel | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 novel | cop |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 novel | advmod |
| 6 | novel | novel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 compared | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 compared | cc |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 compared | aux:pass |
| 10 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 compared | advmod |
| 11 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 novel | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 Spinners | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Grimms | det |
| 14 | Grimms | Grimm | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 Spinners | compound |
| 15 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 14 Grimms | case |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 Grimms | punct |
| 17 | Spinners | spinner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 compared | obl |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 compared | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 novel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the latter part | novel property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | compare | present · passive | the latter part not said here | with Grimms Spinners; well property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: with spinner=Co-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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