English Fairy Tales, I. Tom Tit Tot., sentence 5

The “name-guessing wager” is also found in “Peerifool”, printed by Mr. Andrew Lang in _Longman's Magazine_, July 1889, also _Folk-Lore_, September, 1890.

What happens: guess, find, print · To what, where: guessing wager, Peerifool, Magazine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Tom Tit Tot.. 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wager	det
2	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 wager	punct
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guessing	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 name	punct
5	guessing	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 wager	amod
6	wager	wager	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	nsubj:pass
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 wager	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 found	aux:pass
9	also	also	ADV	_	10 found	advmod
10	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 Peerifool	case
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 Peerifool	punct
13	Peerifool	Peerifool	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 found	obj
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 Peerifool	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 printed	punct
16	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 Peerifool	acl
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 Andrew	case
18	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Andrew	nmod:desc
19	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 printed	obl:agent
20	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Andrew	flat
21	in	in	ADP	_	25 Magazine	case
22	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Longman	compound
23	Longman	Longman	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Magazine	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 Longman	case
25	Magazine	Magazine	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 printed	obl
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	16 printed	punct
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 1889	punct
28	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 1889	nmod:unmarked
29	1889	1889	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 Peerifool	list
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 1890	punct
31	also	also	ADV	_	40 1890	advmod
32	_	_	PUNCT	_	40 1890	punct
33	Folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Lore	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 Lore	punct
35	Lore	Lore	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 1890	nsubj
36	_	_	PUNCT	_	35 Lore	punct
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 September	punct
38	September	September	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Lore	flat
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 1890	punct
40	1890	1890	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 found	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	guess in a quote	gerund				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	find	present · passive	the guessing wager		1890 obl	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme peerifool=Attribute
3	print	participle	Peerifool not said here	_ Longman's Magazine		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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