English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 4
Why, bodies and skeletons of beautiful young ladies all stained with blood.
Who acts: bodies · What happens: stain
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bodies), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 stained | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bodies | punct |
| 3 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stained | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 skeletons | cc |
| 5 | skeletons | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bodies | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 ladies | case |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ladies | amod |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ladies | amod |
| 9 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bodies | nmod |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 stained | advmod |
| 11 | stained | stain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 blood | case |
| 13 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stained | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stain | past | bodies of beautiful young ladies and skeletons | with blood; all property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with blood=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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