English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 36
But perhaps my teacher, the spaewife of Ostree, may know better.”
Who acts: teacher · What happens: know
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teacher), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 know | cc |
| 2 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 12 know | advmod |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 4 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 know | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spaewife | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spaewife | det |
| 7 | spaewife | spaewife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 teacher | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Ostree | case |
| 9 | Ostree | Ostree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 spaewife | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 teacher | punct |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | aux |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 know | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | may | my teacher and the spaewife of Ostree | good, perhaps property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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