English Fairy Tales, XI. Cap O' Rushes., sentence 2
_Parallels_.--The beginning recalls “King Lear.”
Who acts: Parallels · What happens: recall · To what, where: King Lear
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XI. Cap O' Rushes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parallels), 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 | 7 recalls | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | SYM | _ | 2 Parallels | discourse |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 beginning | det |
| 6 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recalls | nsubj |
| 7 | recalls | recall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Lear | punct |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Lear | compound |
| 10 | Lear | Lear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 recalls | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Lear | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 recalls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recall | present | Parallels | King Lear | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lear=Theme |
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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