English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 23
The first adjective of our title also needs a similar extension of its meaning.
Who acts: first adjective, our, title · What happens: need, title, mean · To what, where: similar extension
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to My Dear Little May_. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first adjective, our, title), 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 | 3 adjective | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 adjective | amod |
| 3 | adjective | adjective | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 needs | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 title | case |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 title | nmod:poss |
| 6 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 adjective | nmod |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 needs | advmod |
| 8 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 extension | det |
| 10 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 extension | amod |
| 11 | extension | extension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 needs | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 meaning | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 meaning | nmod:poss |
| 14 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 extension | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | the first adjective of our title | a similar extension of title's meaning | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot extension=Theme | ||||
| 2 | title | our | nom title «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 3 | mean | title | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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