English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 26
One of the best was taken down from the mouth of an English Gipsy.
What happens: take down · To what, where: best, mouth
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: 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 best | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 best | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux:pass |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 One | parataxis |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 taken | compound:prt |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 mouth | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mouth | det |
| 10 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Gipsy | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Gipsy | det |
| 13 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Gipsy | amod |
| 14 | Gipsy | gipsy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mouth | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 One | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take down | past · passive | the best | the mouth of a English Gipsy | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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