English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 33
For it was a leg of the sofa that he had put out.
Who acts: door, Mr. · What happens: be, put out
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Miacca. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, Mr.), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 leg | case |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 leg | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 leg | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 leg | det |
| 5 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sofa | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sofa | det |
| 8 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leg | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 put | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 put | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 put | aux |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 put | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | door | for a leg; of the sofa | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put out | past · perfect | Mr. | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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