English Fairy Tales, II. the Three Sillies., sentence 10
Mr. Clouston devotes the seventh chapter of his _Book of Noodles_ to the Quest of the Three Noodles.
Who acts: Clouston · What happens: devote · To what, where: seventh chapter, Quest
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. the Three Sillies.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clouston), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Clouston | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Clouston | Clouston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 devotes | nsubj |
| 3 | devotes | devote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chapter | det |
| 5 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chapter | amod |
| 6 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 devotes | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Book | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Book | nmod:poss |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Book | punct |
| 10 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 chapter | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Noodles | case |
| 12 | Noodles | Noodle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 Book | nmod |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 Quest | punct |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Quest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Quest | det |
| 16 | Quest | Quest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 devotes | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Noodles | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Noodles | det |
| 19 | Three | Three | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Noodles | compound |
| 20 | Noodles | Noodle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 Quest | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 devotes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | devote | present | Clouston Mr. | the seventh chapter of Clouston's Book of Noodles | the Quest of the Three Noodles | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent chapter=Theme to quest=Goal |
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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