English Fairy Tales, V. How Jack Sought His Fortune., sentence 4
_ One of these, however, was probably derived from Grimm's “Town Musicians of Bremen” (No. 27).
What happens: derive · To what, where: Town Musicians
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: 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 One | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 these | case |
| 4 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 One | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 derived | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 derived | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 derived | aux:pass |
| 9 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 10 derived | advmod |
| 10 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 One | parataxis |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 Musicians | case |
| 12 | Grimm | Grimm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Musicians | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Grimm | case |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Musicians | punct |
| 15 | Town | town | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Musicians | amod |
| 16 | Musicians | Musician | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 derived | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Bremen | case |
| 18 | Bremen | Bremen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Musicians | nmod |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 derived | punct |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 No. | punct |
| 21 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 10 derived | parataxis |
| 22 | 27 | 27 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 No. | flat |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 No. | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 One | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derive | past · passive | Grimm's Town Musicians of Bremen | however, probably property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: from musician=Material |
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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