More English Fairy Tales, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm, sentence 13
Dragons are possibly survivals into historic times of antedeluvian monsters, or reminiscences of classical legend (Perseus, etc.).
Who acts: Dragons, classical legend · What happens: be, reminisce · To what, where: possibly survivals
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dragons, classical legend), 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 | Dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 survivals | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 survivals | cop |
| 3 | possibly | possibly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 survivals | amod |
| 4 | survivals | survival | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 times | case |
| 6 | historic | historic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 times | amod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 survivals | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 monsters | case |
| 9 | antedeluvian | antedeluvian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 monsters | amod |
| 10 | monsters | monster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 times | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reminiscences | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 reminiscences | cc |
| 13 | reminiscences | reminiscence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 survivals | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 legend | case |
| 15 | classical | classical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 legend | amod |
| 16 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reminiscences | nmod |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 Perseus | punct |
| 18 | Perseus | Perseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 legend | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 etc. | punct |
| 20 | etc. | etc. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 18 Perseus | flat:foreign |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 Perseus | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 survivals | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Dragons | possibly survivals or reminiscences of classical legend | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reminisce | classical legend | nom reminiscence «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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