English Fairy Tales, III. the Rose Tree., sentence 2
_Parallels_.--This is better known under the title, “Orange and Lemon,” and with the refrain:
Who acts: Parallels · What happens: be, know · To what, where: title
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, III. the Rose Tree.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parallels), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 2 | Parallels | parallel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 better | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | SYM | _ | 2 Parallels | discourse |
| 5 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Parallels | conj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 better | cop |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 better | advcl |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 title | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 title | det |
| 11 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 known | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Orange | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Orange | punct |
| 14 | Orange | Orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 title | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Lemon | cc |
| 16 | Lemon | Lemon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Orange | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 better | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 better | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 refrain | cc |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 refrain | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 refrain | det |
| 22 | refrain | refrain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 better | conj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Parallels | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | Parallels not said here | the title | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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