English Fairy Tales, IX. Binnorie., sentence 3
A tale is the better for length, a ballad for its curtness.
Who acts: tale · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. Binnorie.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tale), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tale | det |
| 2 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 better | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 better | det |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 length | case |
| 7 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 better | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ballad | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ballad | det |
| 10 | ballad | ballad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 length | appos |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 curtness | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 curtness | nmod:poss |
| 13 | curtness | curtness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ballad | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a tale | for length; good property | tree rules |
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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