English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 61
It should be added that the dainty headpieces to “Henny Penny” and “Mr. Fox” are due to my old friend, Mr. Henry Ryland.
Who acts: dainty headpieces · What happens: add, be · To what, where: skill
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 (dainty headpieces), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 added | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 added | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 added | aux:pass |
| 4 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 friend | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 headpieces | det |
| 7 | dainty | dainty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 headpieces | compound |
| 8 | headpieces | headpiece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 friend | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Penny | case |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Penny | punct |
| 11 | Henny | Henny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Penny | compound |
| 12 | Penny | Penny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 headpieces | nmod |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Penny | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Fox | cc |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Fox | punct |
| 16 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Fox | compound |
| 17 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Penny | conj |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Fox | punct |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 friend | cop |
| 20 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 24 friend | case |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 due | fixed |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 friend | nmod:poss |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 friend | amod |
| 24 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 added | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Henry | punct |
| 26 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Henry | nmod:desc |
| 27 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 friend | appos |
| 28 | Ryland | Ryland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Henry | flat |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | should · passive | skill | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the dainty headpieces to Henny Penny and Mr. Fox | due my old friend | 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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