English Fairy Tales, II. the Three Sillies., sentence 5

155, as told in Essex at the beginning of the century.

What happens: tell, begin · To what, where: beginning, century · Speech: someone speaks here

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: 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	155	155	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 told	mark
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 155	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Essex	case
6	Essex	Essex	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl:agent
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 beginning	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beginning	det
9	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 century	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 century	det
12	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beginning	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 155	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	participle					at the beginning of the century		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin			the century					nom beginning «event 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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