English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 50
But to this day, the loathsome toad is seen at times, haunting the neighbourhood of Bamborough Keep, and the wicked witch-queen is a Laidly Toad.
Who acts: wicked witch queen · What happens: see, haunt, keep, be · To what, where: loathsome toad, neighbourhood, Laidly Toad
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked witch queen), 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 | _ | 10 seen | cc |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seen | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 toad | det |
| 7 | loathsome | loathsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 toad | amod |
| 8 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | aux:pass |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 times | case |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 seen | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 haunting | punct |
| 14 | haunting | haunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 seen | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 neighbourhood | det |
| 16 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 haunting | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Bamborough | case |
| 18 | Bamborough | Bamborough | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 neighbourhood | nmod |
| 19 | Keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 haunting | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Toad | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Toad | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 queen | det |
| 23 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 queen | amod |
| 24 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 queen | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 witch | punct |
| 26 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Toad | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 Toad | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 Toad | det |
| 29 | Laidly | Laidly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Toad | compound |
| 30 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 seen | vocative |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · passive | the loathsome toad | day; time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | haunt | gerund | the neighbourhood of Bamborough | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus neighbourhood=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | keep | infinitive | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | the wicked witch queen | a Laidly Toad | 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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