English Fairy Tales, X. Mouse and Mouser., sentence 3
The surprise at the end, similar to that in Perrault's “Red Riding Hood,” is a frequent device in English folk tales.
Who acts: surprise · What happens: be · To what, where: frequent device, English folk tales
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 (surprise), 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 | 2 surprise | det |
| 2 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 device | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 end | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 end | det |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 surprise | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 similar | punct |
| 7 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 surprise | appos |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 that | case |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 similar | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Hood | case |
| 11 | Perrault | Perrault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Hood | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Perrault | case |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Hood | punct |
| 14 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Riding | flat |
| 15 | Riding | Riding | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Hood | compound |
| 16 | Hood | Hood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 similar | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Hood | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 similar | punct |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 device | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 device | det |
| 21 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 device | amod |
| 22 | device | device | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 tales | case |
| 24 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 tales | compound |
| 25 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tales | compound |
| 26 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 device | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 device | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the surprise at the end | a frequent device | English folk tales | 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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