More English Fairy Tales, LXXXI. Habetrot and Scantlie Mab, sentence 9
_--Henderson makes out of Habetrot a goddess of the spinning-wheel, but with very little authority as it seems to me.
Who acts: _, it · What happens: make out, seem · To what, where: Habetrot, me
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 (_, it), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 3 | Henderson | Henderson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 Habetrot | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Habetrot | case |
| 7 | Habetrot | Habetrot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 goddess | det |
| 9 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | xcomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wheel | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wheel | det |
| 12 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wheel | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 spinning | punct |
| 14 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 goddess | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seems | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 seems | cc |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 authority | case |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 little | advmod |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 authority | amod |
| 20 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seems | obl |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 seems | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 seems | nsubj |
| 23 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 makes | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 seems | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make out | present | _ | Habetrot | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer habetrot=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | seem | present | it | me | with little authority | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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