More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 9
_--_Catskin, or the Wandering Gentlewomen_, now exists in English only in two chap-book ballads.
Who acts: Wandering Gentlewomen · What happens: exist · To what, where: Catskin, English
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 (Wandering Gentlewomen), 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 Catskin | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 Catskin | punct |
| 3 | _ | _ | ADP | _ | 4 Catskin | case |
| 4 | Catskin | Catskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 exists | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 exists | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Gentlewomen | det |
| 8 | Wandering | Wandering | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Gentlewomen | compound |
| 9 | Gentlewomen | Gentlewomen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 exists | nsubj |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Gentlewomen | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Gentlewomen | punct |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 exists | advmod |
| 13 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Catskin | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 English | case |
| 15 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 exists | obl |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 ballads | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 ballads | case |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 ballads | nummod |
| 19 | chap | chap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 book | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 chap | punct |
| 21 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ballads | compound |
| 22 | ballads | ballad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 exists | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Catskin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | present | the Wandering Gentlewomen | Catskin not said here | English | now | in two book ballads | tree rules |
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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