More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 13
Yet they existed in England, for Miss Isabella Barclay, in a variant which Miss Cox has overlooked (_Folk-Lore_, i., _l.c.
Who acts: motifs · What happens: exist, overlook · To what, where: England, variant
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 (motifs), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 3 existed | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 existed | nsubj |
| 3 | existed | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 England | case |
| 5 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 existed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Isabella | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Isabella | case |
| 8 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Isabella | compound |
| 9 | Isabella | Isabella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 existed | conj |
| 10 | Barclay | Barclay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Isabella | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 variant | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 variant | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 variant | det |
| 14 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 existed | obl |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 overlooked | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 overlooked | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | Cox | Cox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Miss | flat |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 overlooked | aux |
| 19 | overlooked | overlook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 variant | acl:relcl |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 Lore | punct |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 Lore | punct |
| 22 | Folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Lore | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Folk | punct |
| 24 | Lore | Lore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 existed | parataxis |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 Lore | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 i. | punct |
| 27 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 Lore | dep |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 l.c | punct |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 l.c | punct |
| 30 | l.c | l.c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Lore | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 existed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | past | motifs = motif | England | in a variant | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in england=Location | |||
| 2 | overlook | present · perfect · passive | a variant | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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