More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 16
One wonders in what form Mr. Burchell knew Catskin, for "he gave the [Primrose] children the Buck of Beverland,[3] with the history of Patient Grissel, the adventures of Catskin and the Fair Rosamond's Bower" (_Vicar of Wakefield_, 1766, c. vi.).
Who acts: One, Burchell · What happens: wonder, know, give, adventure · To what, where: Catskin, Buck, Primrose children · 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: who acts (One, Burchell), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 wonders | nsubj |
| 2 | wonders | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 what | case |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 wonders | obl |
| 5 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Mr. | compound |
| 6 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Burchell | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Burchell | Burchell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | Catskin | Catskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 knew | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 gave | mark |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wonders | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 children | det |
| 16 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 17 Primrose | punct |
| 17 | Primrose | primrose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 children | compound |
| 18 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 17 Primrose | punct |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gave | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Buck | det |
| 21 | Buck | Buck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Beverland | case |
| 23 | Beverland | Beverland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Buck | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 3 | punct |
| 25 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 26 3 | punct |
| 26 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 gave | obl |
| 27 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 26 3 | punct |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 history | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 history | det |
| 30 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Patient | case |
| 32 | Patient | Patient | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 history | nmod |
| 33 | Grissel | Grissel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Patient | flat |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 adventures | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 adventures | det |
| 36 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 Patient | appos |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Catskin | case |
| 38 | Catskin | Catskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 adventures | nmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 Bower | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Rosamond | det |
| 41 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Rosamond | compound |
| 42 | Rosamond | Rosamond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Bower | nmod:poss |
| 43 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 42 Rosamond | case |
| 44 | Bower | Bower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Catskin | conj |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 Bower | punct |
| 46 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 48 Vicar | punct |
| 47 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 48 Vicar | punct |
| 48 | Vicar | vicar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 adventures | conj |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 Wakefield | case |
| 50 | Wakefield | Wakefield | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Vicar | nmod |
| 51 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 48 Vicar | punct |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 1766 | punct |
| 53 | 1766 | 1766 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 48 Vicar | appos |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 c. | punct |
| 55 | c. | c. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 Vicar | conj |
| 56 | vi | vi | X | Foreign=Yes | 55 c. | dep |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 adventures | punct |
| 58 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wonders | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | present | One | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | know | past | Burchell form Mr. | Catskin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer catskin=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | past | Burchell | the Buck of Beverland | the Primrose children | with the history of Patient; 3 obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient buck=Theme | ||
| 4 | adventure in a quote | Catskin and the Fair Rosamond's Bower | nom adventure «act transitive»: of=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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