English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 24
Now this was what he had written in the letter:
Who acts: this, Hark · What happens: be, write · To what, where: letter
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, Hark), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 what | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 what | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 written | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 written | aux |
| 7 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 letter | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 letter | det |
| 10 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 written | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | write | past · perfect | Hark | the letter | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in letter=Destination |
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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