English Fairy Tales, II. the Three Sillies., sentence 4
Stephens gave a variant from his own memory in _Folk-Lore Record_, iii.
Who acts: Stephens · What happens: give · To what, where: variant, own memory
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 (Stephens), 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 | Stephens | stephen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 variant | det |
| 4 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 memory | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 memory | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 memory | amod |
| 8 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Record | case |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 Record | punct |
| 11 | Folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Lore | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Folk | punct |
| 13 | Lore | Lore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Record | compound |
| 14 | Record | Record | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obl |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 Record | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 iii | punct |
| 17 | iii | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 14 Record | flat |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Stephens | a variant | C.'s own memory | in Lore Record | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent variant=Theme |
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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