English Fairy Tales, X. Mouse and Mouser., sentence 2

_Parallels_.--A fragment is given in Halliwell, 43; Chambers's _Popular Rhymes_ has a Scotch version, “The Cattie sits in the Kilnring spinning” (p. 53).

Who acts: Popular Rhymes, Cattie, Chambers · What happens: give, have, sit, spin, rhyme · To what, where: Parallels, Halliwell, Scotch version, Kilnring, p.

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, X. Mouse and Mouser.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Popular Rhymes, Cattie, Chambers), 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 Parallels	punct
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 given	nsubj:pass
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Parallels	punct
4	.--	.--	SYM	_	2 Parallels	discourse
5	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fragment	det
6	fragment	fragment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 given	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 given	aux:pass
8	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Halliwell	case
10	Halliwell	Halliwell	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 given	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 43	punct
12	43	43	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 Halliwell	appos
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 has	punct
14	Chambers	Chambers	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Rhymes	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Chambers	case
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 Rhymes	punct
17	Popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Rhymes	amod
18	Rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 has	nsubj
19	_	_	PUNCT	_	20 has	punct
20	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 given	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 version	det
22	Scotch	scotch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 version	compound
23	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 has	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sits	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 sits	punct
26	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Cattie	det
27	Cattie	Cattie	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 sits	nsubj
28	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 has	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 Kilnring	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Kilnring	det
31	Kilnring	Kilnring	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 sits	obl
32	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 sits	advcl
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 spinning	punct
34	(	(	PUNCT	_	35 p.	punct
35	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 spinning	obj
36	53	53	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	35 p.	flat
37	)	)	PUNCT	_	35 p.	punct
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	give	present · passive		Parallels	Halliwell	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	have	present	Chambers's Popular Rhymes	a Scotch version		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Patient
3	sit in a quote	present	the Cattie		the Kilnring	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in kilnring=Location
4	spin in a quote	gerund	the Cattie not said here	p.		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme p.=Result
5	rhyme		Chambers			nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: poss=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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