English Fairy Tales, The Strange Visitor, sentence 40
“Threshing with an iron flail, threshing with an iron flail” (_gruffly_).
What happens: thresh
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Strange Visitor. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Threshing | punct |
| 2 | Threshing | thresh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 flail | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 flail | det |
| 5 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 flail | amod |
| 6 | flail | flail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Threshing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 threshing | punct |
| 8 | threshing | thresh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Threshing | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 flail | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 flail | det |
| 11 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flail | compound |
| 12 | flail | flail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threshing | obl |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Threshing | punct |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 gruffly | punct |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 gruffly | punct |
| 16 | gruffly | gruffly | ADV | _ | 2 Threshing | advmod |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 gruffly | punct |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 gruffly | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Threshing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thresh in a quote | gerund | with a iron flail; gruffly property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | thresh in a quote | gerund | with a iron flail | 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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