More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIV. Stupid's Cries, sentence 7
Stephens gives parallels from Denmark.
Who acts: Stephens · What happens: give · To what, where: parallels, Denmark
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 (Stephens), 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 | Stephens | stephen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gives | nsubj |
| 2 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | parallels | parallel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gives | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Denmark | case |
| 5 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 parallels | nmod |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Stephens | parallels | Denmark | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parallel=Theme |
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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