More English Fairy Tales, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm, sentence 6
The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh" (No. xxxiii.) also requires the milk of nine kye for its daily rations, and cow's milk is the ordinary provender of such kittle cattle (Grimms' _Teut.
Who acts: Laidly Worm, milk · What happens: require, be · To what, where: milk, ordinary provender
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 (Laidly Worm, milk), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Worm | det |
| 2 | Laidly | Laidly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Worm | compound |
| 3 | Worm | Worm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 requires | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Heugh | case |
| 5 | Spindleston | Spindleston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Heugh | compound |
| 6 | Heugh | Heugh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Worm | nmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Heugh | punct |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 No. | punct |
| 9 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 6 Heugh | appos |
| 10 | xxxiii | xxxiii | NUM | _ | 9 No. | flat |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 No. | punct |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 No. | punct |
| 13 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 requires | advmod |
| 14 | requires | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 milk | det |
| 16 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 requires | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 kye | case |
| 18 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 kye | nummod |
| 19 | kye | kye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 milk | nmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 rations | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 rations | nmod:poss |
| 22 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rations | amod |
| 23 | rations | ration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 kye | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 provender | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 provender | cc |
| 26 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 milk | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 cow | case |
| 28 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 provender | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 provender | cop |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 provender | det |
| 31 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 provender | amod |
| 32 | provender | provender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 requires | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 cattle | case |
| 34 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 cattle | amod |
| 35 | kittle | kittle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 cattle | amod |
| 36 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 provender | nmod |
| 37 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 38 Grimms | punct |
| 38 | Grimms | grimm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 cattle | conj |
| 39 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 38 Grimms | case |
| 40 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 41 Teut | punct |
| 41 | Teut | Teut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Grimms | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 requires | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | require in a quote | present | the Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh | the milk of nine kye for kye's daily rations | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme milk=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | cow's milk | the ordinary provender | of such kittle cattle and Grimms Teut | 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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