More English Fairy Tales, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm, sentence 3
287-9, I have rewritten, as the original was rather high falutin'.
Who acts: I, original · What happens: rewrite, be
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 (I, original), 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 | 287-9 | 287-9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rewritten | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 rewritten | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rewritten | aux |
| 5 | rewritten | rewrite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 287-9 | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 falutin | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 falutin | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 original | det |
| 9 | original | original | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 falutin | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 falutin | cop |
| 11 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 12 high | advmod |
| 12 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 falutin | amod |
| 13 | falutin | falutin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rewritten | obj |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 falutin | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 287-9 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rewrite | present · perfect | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the original | as high falutin | 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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