English Fairy Tales, V. How Jack Sought His Fortune., sentence 2
I have eliminated a malodorous and un-English skunk.
Who acts: I · What happens: eliminate · To what, where: malodorous skunk
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, V. How Jack Sought His Fortune.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 eliminated | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 eliminated | aux |
| 3 | eliminated | eliminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 skunk | det |
| 5 | malodorous | malodorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 skunk | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 un-English | cc |
| 7 | un-English | un-english | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 malodorous | conj |
| 8 | skunk | skunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eliminated | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eliminated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eliminate | present · perfect | I | a malodorous skunk | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skunk=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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