More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 10
But Chambers's first variant of _Rashie Coat_ begins with the Catskin formula in a euphemised form.
Who acts: first variant, Rashie Coat · What happens: begin, euphemis, vary
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXIII. Catskin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first variant, Rashie Coat), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 begins | cc |
| 2 | Chambers | Chambers | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 variant | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Chambers | case |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 variant | amod |
| 5 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 begins | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Coat | case |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 of | punct |
| 8 | Rashie | Rashie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Coat | compound |
| 9 | Coat | Coat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 variant | nmod |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 variant | punct |
| 11 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 formula | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 formula | det |
| 14 | Catskin | Catskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 formula | compound |
| 15 | formula | formula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 begins | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 form | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 form | det |
| 18 | euphemised | euphemis | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 form | amod |
| 19 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 formula | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 begins | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present | Chambers's first variant of Rashie Coat | with the Catskin formula in a euphemised form | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with formula=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | euphemis | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | vary | Rashie Coat | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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