English Fairy Tales, The Cauld Lad of Hilton, sentence 5

Oh, it's a kind of a sort of a Bogle, but it isn't so cruel as a Redcap!

Who acts: bed · What happens: be, not be, sort · To what, where: kind, Bogle

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Cauld Lad of Hilton. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bed), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kind	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 sort	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sort	det
9	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Bogle	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Bogle	det
12	Bogle	Bogle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sort	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cruel	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 cruel	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cruel	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 cruel	cop
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 cruel	advmod
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 cruel	advmod
19	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kind	conj
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 Redcap	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 Redcap	det
22	Redcap	redcap	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cruel	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	bed	a kind	of a sort of a Bogle	tree rules
2	not is	present	bed		as a Redcap; cruel property	tree rules
3	sort			a Bogle		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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