More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 14
_), remembers having heard the Unnatural Father incident from a Cornish servant-girl.
What happens: remember, have, hear · To what, where: Unnatural Father incident · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 remembers | punct |
| 2 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 remembers | punct |
| 4 | remembers | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 remembers | ccomp |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 having | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 incident | det |
| 8 | Unnatural | unnatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 incident | amod |
| 9 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 incident | compound |
| 10 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 girl | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 13 | Cornish | cornish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 girl | amod |
| 14 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 girl | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 servant | punct |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 incident | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remembers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | have | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | hear | participle | the Unnatural Father incident | from a Cornish servant girl | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent incident=Topic from girl=Source |
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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