English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 46
But though it was rock, the air was quite warm, as it always is in Elfland.
Who acts: rock, air · What happens: be · To what, where: rock
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rock, air), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 warm | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 rock | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rock | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rock | cop |
| 5 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 warm | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rock | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 warm | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 warm | cop |
| 10 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 11 warm | advmod |
| 11 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Elfland | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 Elfland | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 Elfland | nsubj |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 Elfland | advmod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Elfland | cop |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Elfland | case |
| 18 | Elfland | Elfland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 warm | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 warm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | rock | rock | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the air | warm property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | rock | as Elfland; always property | 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: «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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