More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 24
If I understand Mr. Nutt rightly (_Folk-Lore_, iv, 135, _seq.
Who acts: I · What happens: understand · To what, where: Nutt
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 (I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 understand | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 understand | nsubj |
| 3 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Nutt | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Nutt | Nutt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 understand | obj |
| 6 | rightly | rightly | ADV | _ | 5 Nutt | advmod |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 Folk | punct |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Folk | punct |
| 9 | Folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Nutt | appos |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Lore | punct |
| 11 | Lore | Lore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Folk | appos |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Lore | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 iv | punct |
| 14 | iv | iv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Folk | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 135 | punct |
| 16 | 135 | 135 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 Folk | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seq | punct |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 seq | punct |
| 19 | seq | seq | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Nutt | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | present | I | Nutt Mr. and seq | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nutt=Stimulus |
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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