More English Fairy Tales, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm, sentence 5
_--Worms or dragons form the subject of the whole of the eighth chapter of Henderson. "
Who acts: Worms · What happens: form · To what, where: subject
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 (Worms), 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 | _ | 3 Worms | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 Worms | punct |
| 3 | Worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 form | nsubj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 dragons | cc |
| 5 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Worms | conj |
| 6 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 subject | det |
| 8 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 form | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 whole | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 whole | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 subject | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 chapter | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chapter | det |
| 14 | eighth | eighth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 chapter | amod |
| 15 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 whole | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Henderson | case |
| 17 | Henderson | Henderson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 chapter | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 form | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 form | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | present | Worms or dragons | the subject of the whole | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=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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