More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIV. Stupid's Cries, sentence 4
I have changed "dog and bitch" of original to "dog and cat," and euphemised the liver and lights.
Who acts: I · What happens: change, euphemis · To what, where: dog, liver
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXIV. Stupid's Cries. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 changed | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 changed | aux |
| 3 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dog | punct |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bitch | cc |
| 7 | bitch | bitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dog | conj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dog | punct |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 original | case |
| 10 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 changed | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 original | xcomp |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 dog | punct |
| 13 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 to | appos |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cat | cc |
| 15 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dog | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dog | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 original | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 euphemised | cc |
| 19 | euphemised | euphemis | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 changed | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 liver | det |
| 21 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 euphemised | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lights | cc |
| 23 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 liver | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present · perfect | I | dog and bitch | of original | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient | |||
| 2 | euphemis | past | I not said here | the liver and lights | 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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