English Fairy Tales, VII. Nix Nought Nothing., sentence 3
I have also inserted the incidents of the flight, the usual ones in tales of this type, and expanded the conclusion, which is very curtailed and confused in the original.
Who acts: I, type · What happens: insert, expand, curtail, confuse, tell · To what, where: incidents, conclusion, original · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. Nix Nought Nothing.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, type), 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 | 4 inserted | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 inserted | aux |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 inserted | advmod |
| 4 | inserted | insert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 incidents | det |
| 6 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 inserted | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 flight | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 flight | det |
| 9 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 incidents | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ones | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ones | det |
| 12 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ones | amod |
| 13 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 incidents | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tales | case |
| 15 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ones | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 type | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 type | det |
| 18 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tales | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 expanded | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 expanded | cc |
| 21 | expanded | expand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 inserted | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 conclusion | det |
| 23 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 expanded | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 curtailed | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 curtailed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 curtailed | aux:pass |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 curtailed | advmod |
| 28 | curtailed | curtail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 conclusion | appos |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 confused | cc |
| 30 | confused | confuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 curtailed | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 original | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 original | det |
| 33 | original | original | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 confused | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 inserted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | insert | present · perfect | I | the incidents of the flight and the usual ones in tales of this type | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incident=Theme | ||||
| 2 | expand | past | I not said here | the conclusion | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent conclusion=Patient | ||||
| 3 | curtail | present · passive | the conclusion | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | confuse | participle | the original | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | tell | this type | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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