More English Fairy Tales, LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham, sentence 11
For there can be little doubt that these drolls have spread from East to West.
Who acts: you, little doubt · What happens: be, spread · To what, where: drolls, West, East
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, little doubt), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 6 doubt | case |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 be | expl |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 be | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 doubt | cop |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 doubt | amod |
| 6 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 spread | mark |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 drolls | det |
| 9 | drolls | droll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 spread | aux |
| 11 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 doubt | acl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 East | case |
| 13 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 spread | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 West | case |
| 15 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 spread | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 doubt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | for little doubt | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spread | present · perfect · passive | little doubt not said here | this drolls | West | East | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: 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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