More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 22
Now, Professor Child has pointed out in his notes on Tamlane and elsewhere (_English and Scotch Ballads_, i., 338; ii., 505; iii., 505) that dipping into water or milk is necessary before transformation can take place.
Who acts: Child, dipping, transformation, Professor · What happens: point out, dip, be, take, note · To what, where: iii, water, place, Tamlane
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 (Child, dipping, transformation, Professor), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 pointed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | Professor | Professor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Child | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Child | Child | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 pointed | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pointed | aux |
| 6 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 pointed | compound:prt |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 notes | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 notes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pointed | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 Tamlane | case |
| 12 | Tamlane | Tamlane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 notes | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 elsewhere | cc |
| 14 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 12 Tamlane | conj |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 Ballads | punct |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 Ballads | punct |
| 17 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Ballads | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Scotch | cc |
| 19 | Scotch | Scotch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 English | conj |
| 20 | Ballads | ballad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Tamlane | appos |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 i. | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 i. | punct |
| 23 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 Ballads | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 338 | punct |
| 25 | 338 | 338 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 i. | appos |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 ii | punct |
| 27 | ii | ii | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 Ballads | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 Ballads | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 505 | punct |
| 30 | 505 | 505 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 Tamlane | list |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 iii | punct |
| 32 | iii | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 6 pointed | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 iii | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 505 | punct |
| 35 | 505 | 505 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 iii | appos |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 505 | punct |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 necessary | mark |
| 38 | dipping | dip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 44 necessary | csubj |
| 39 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 water | case |
| 40 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 dipping | obl |
| 41 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 42 milk | cc |
| 42 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 water | conj |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 necessary | cop |
| 44 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pointed | parataxis |
| 45 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 48 take | mark |
| 46 | transformation | transformation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 take | nsubj |
| 47 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 take | aux |
| 48 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 necessary | csubj |
| 49 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 take | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point out | present · perfect | Child Professor | iii | now | in Professor's notes on Tamlane | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in note=Theme | ||
| 2 | dip | gerund | water or milk | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Location | |||||
| 3 | is | present | dipping | necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | can | transformation | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 5 | note | Professor | Tamlane | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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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