More English Fairy Tales, LXXXVII. Princess of Canterbury, sentence 2
_--I have inserted into the old chap-book version of the _Four Kings of Colchester, Canterbury_, &c., an incident entitled by Halliwell "The Three Questions."
Who acts: I · What happens: insert, entitle · To what, where: c., old book version, incident
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXVII. Princess of Canterbury. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 5 inserted | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 inserted | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 inserted | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 inserted | aux |
| 5 | inserted | insert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 version | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 version | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 version | amod |
| 9 | chap | chap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 book | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 chap | punct |
| 11 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 version | compound |
| 12 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 inserted | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Kings | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Kings | det |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 Kings | punct |
| 16 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 Kings | nummod |
| 17 | Kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 version | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Colchester | case |
| 19 | Colchester | Colchester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Kings | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Canterbury | punct |
| 21 | Canterbury | Canterbury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Colchester | conj |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 inserted | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 c. | punct |
| 24 | & | & | CCONJ | _ | 25 c. | cc |
| 25 | c. | c. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 inserted | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 incident | punct |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 incident | det |
| 28 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 c. | appos |
| 29 | entitled | entitle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 incident | acl |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 Halliwell | case |
| 31 | Halliwell | Halliwell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 entitled | obl |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 Questions | punct |
| 33 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Questions | det |
| 34 | Three | Three | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Questions | compound |
| 35 | Questions | Question | PROPN | Number=Plur | 31 Halliwell | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 inserted | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 inserted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | insert | present · perfect | I | c. | the old book version of the Four Kings of Colchester and Canterbury | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | entitle | participle | a incident not said here | by Halliwell and the Three Questions | 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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