More English Fairy Tales, LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham, sentence 7
In most cases Mr. Clouston quotes Eastern analogies.
Who acts: Mr. · What happens: quote · To what, where: Eastern analogies, most cases
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 (Mr.), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cases | case |
| 2 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 cases | amod |
| 3 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 quotes | obl |
| 4 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 quotes | nsubj |
| 5 | Clouston | Clouston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mr. | flat |
| 6 | quotes | quote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 analogies | amod |
| 8 | analogies | analogy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 quotes | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 quotes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quote speech: other | present | Mr. | Eastern analogies | most cases | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent analogy=Topic |
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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