English Fairy Tales, II. the Three Sillies., sentence 6
Mr. Toulmin Smith gave another version in _The Constitutional_, July 1, 1853, which was translated by his daughter, and contributed to _Mélusine_, t. ii.
Who acts: Toulmin, daughter · What happens: give, translate, contribute · To what, where: version, Constitutional _, Mélusine
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 (Toulmin, daughter), 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 Toulmin | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Toulmin | Toulmin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Toulmin | flat |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 version | det |
| 6 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 _ | case |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 in | punct |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 _ | det |
| 10 | Constitutional | constitutional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 _ | amod |
| 11 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 1 | punct |
| 13 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 1 | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 gave | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 1853 | punct |
| 16 | 1853 | 1853 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 1 | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 translated | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 translated | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 translated | aux:pass |
| 20 | translated | translate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 1853 | acl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 daughter | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 23 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 translated | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 contributed | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 contributed | cc |
| 26 | contributed | contribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gave | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Mélusine | case |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 to | punct |
| 29 | Mélusine | Mélusine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 contributed | obl |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 Mélusine | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 t. | punct |
| 32 | t. | t. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Mélusine | appos |
| 33 | ii | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 32 t. | flat |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Toulmin Mr. | another version | the Constitutional _ | 1 July obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Theme | ||
| 2 | translate | past · passive | Toulmin's daughter | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | contribute | participle | Toulmin Mr. not said here | Mélusine | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mélusine=Recipient |
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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