English Fairy Tales, VII. Nix Nought Nothing., sentence 4
The usual ending of tales of this class contains the “sale of bed” incident, for which see Child, i. 391.
Who acts: usual ending, class · What happens: contain, see, end, tell · To what, where: sale incident, Child, tales · 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 (usual ending, class), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ending | det |
| 2 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ending | amod |
| 3 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 contains | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 tales | case |
| 5 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ending | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 class | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 class | det |
| 8 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tales | nmod |
| 9 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 incident | det |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sale | punct |
| 12 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 incident | compound |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bed | case |
| 14 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sale | nmod |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sale | punct |
| 16 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 contains | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 see | nsubj |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 contains | parataxis |
| 21 | Child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 391 | punct |
| 23 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 391 | nsubj |
| 24 | 391 | 391 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 Child | appos |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 contains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | the usual ending of tales of this class | the sale incident | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot incident=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | present | Child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | end | tales of this class | nom ending «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | tell | this class | 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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