English Fairy Tales, Mouse and Mouser, sentence 16
I found a silver sixpence, my lady, my lady, I found a silver sixpence, my lady.
Who acts: I · What happens: find · To what, where: silver sixpence
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mouse and Mouser. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sixpence | det |
| 4 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sixpence | amod |
| 5 | sixpence | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lady | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lady | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sixpence | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lady | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lady | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sixpence | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sixpence | det |
| 16 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sixpence | amod |
| 17 | sixpence | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lady | punct |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 lady | nmod:poss |
| 20 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sixpence | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | I | a silver sixpence and my lady and my lady | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sixpence=Topic | ||||
| 2 | find | past | I | a silver sixpence and my lady | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sixpence=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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