More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 6
Goldsmith knew the story by the name of "Catskin," as he refers to it in the _Vicar_.
Who acts: Goldsmith · What happens: know, refer, name · To what, where: story, name, Vicar, Catskin
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 (Goldsmith), 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 | Goldsmith | Goldsmith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 name | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 name | det |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Catskin | case |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Catskin | punct |
| 10 | Catskin | Catskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 name | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 refers | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 refers | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 refers | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 refers | nsubj |
| 15 | refers | refer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 refers | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Vicar | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Vicar | det |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 Vicar | punct |
| 21 | Vicar | Vicar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 refers | obl |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 refers | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Goldsmith | the story | by the name of Catskin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | refer | present | Goldsmith | name | the Vicar | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to it=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | name | Catskin | nom name «communication 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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