More English Fairy Tales, LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham, sentence 2
_--The chap-book contained in Mr. Hazlitt's _Shaksperian Jest Book_, vol. iii.
Who acts: chap book · What happens: contain · To what, where: Shaksperian Jest Book
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 (chap book), 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 | _ | 7 contained | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 contained | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 book | det |
| 4 | chap | chap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 book | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 chap | punct |
| 6 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 contained | nsubj |
| 7 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Book | case |
| 9 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Hazlitt | nmod:desc |
| 10 | Hazlitt | Hazlitt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Book | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Hazlitt | case |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 Book | punct |
| 13 | Shaksperian | shaksperian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Book | amod |
| 14 | Jest | Jest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Book | compound |
| 15 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 contained | obl |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 Book | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 vol. | punct |
| 18 | vol. | vol. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Book | appos |
| 19 | iii | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 18 vol. | flat |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 contained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | participle | the chap book | Shaksperian Jest Book | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in book=Location |
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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