More English Fairy Tales, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm, sentence 8
_ 687), the mythological explanation being that cows = the clouds and the dragon = the storm.
Who acts: mythological explanation · What happens: be · To what, where: storm
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 (mythological explanation), 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 | _ | 2 687 | punct |
| 2 | 687 | 687 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 687 | punct |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 687 | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 explanation | det |
| 6 | mythological | mythological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 explanation | amod |
| 7 | explanation | explanation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 storm | nsubj |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 storm | cop |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 storm | mark |
| 10 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 storm | nsubj |
| 11 | = | = | SYM | _ | 13 clouds | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 clouds | det |
| 13 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cows | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dragon | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dragon | det |
| 16 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cows | conj |
| 17 | = | = | SYM | _ | 19 storm | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 storm | det |
| 19 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 687 | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 687 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | gerund | the mythological explanation | the storm | 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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