English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 17
The youngest of the three strange lassies was called Molly Whuppie, and she was very clever.
Who acts: Molly · What happens: call, be · To what, where: youngest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Molly Whuppie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Molly), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youngest | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lassies | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lassies | det |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 lassies | nummod |
| 6 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lassies | amod |
| 7 | lassies | lassie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 youngest | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 called | aux:pass |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 11 | Whuppie | Whuppie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Molly | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 clever | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 clever | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 clever | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 clever | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 clever | advmod |
| 17 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 called | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | the youngest of the three strange lassies | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Molly | clever 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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