English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 56
My friends Mr. E. Clodd, Mr. F.
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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friends | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 E. | nmod:desc |
| 4 | E. | E. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 friends | appos |
| 5 | Clodd | Clodd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 E. | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 F | punct |
| 7 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 F | nmod:desc |
| 8 | F | F | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 E. | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 friends | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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