English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 7
Dame Goody took the babe, which was as fine a baby boy as you'd wish to see.
Who acts: Dame, babe, you · What happens: take, be, wish, see · To what, where: babe, baby boy
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dame, babe, you), 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 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | Goody | Goody | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Dame | flat |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 babe | det |
| 5 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fine | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 fine | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fine | cop |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 fine | advmod |
| 10 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 babe | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 boy | det |
| 12 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 boy | compound |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fine | nsubj |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 wish | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 wish | nsubj |
| 16 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 wish | aux |
| 17 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 boy | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wish | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Dame | the babe | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent babe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the babe | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wish | would | you | a baby boy not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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