English Fairy Tales, XV. Master and Pupil, sentence 2
The rhymes on the open book have been supplied by Mr. Batten, in whose family, if I understand him rightly, they have been long used for raising the----; something similar occurs in Halliwell, p. 243, as a riddle rhyme.
Who acts: Batten, I, something · What happens: supply, understand, use, raise, occur · To what, where: rhymes, Batten, the, Halliwell
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. Master and Pupil. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Batten, I, something), 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 rhymes | det |
| 2 | rhymes | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 supplied | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 book | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 book | det |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 book | amod |
| 6 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rhymes | nmod |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 supplied | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 supplied | aux:pass |
| 9 | supplied | supply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Batten | case |
| 11 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Batten | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Batten | Batten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 supplied | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 family | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 family | case |
| 15 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 16 family | nmod:poss |
| 16 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 supplied | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 understand | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 understand | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 understand | nsubj |
| 20 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 supplied | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 understand | obj |
| 22 | rightly | rightly | ADV | _ | 20 understand | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 used | punct |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 used | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 used | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 used | aux:pass |
| 27 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 used | advmod |
| 28 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 supplied | conj |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 raising | mark |
| 30 | raising | raise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 used | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 raising | obj |
| 32 | ---- | ---- | PUNCT | _ | 31 the | punct |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 occurs | punct |
| 34 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 36 occurs | nsubj |
| 35 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 something | amod |
| 36 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 supplied | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 Halliwell | case |
| 38 | Halliwell | Halliwell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 occurs | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 p. | punct |
| 40 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Halliwell | conj |
| 41 | 243 | 243 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 p. | flat |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 rhyme | punct |
| 43 | as | as | ADP | _ | 46 rhyme | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 rhyme | det |
| 45 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 rhyme | compound |
| 46 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 occurs | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 supplied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | supply | present · perfect · passive | Batten Mr. | the rhymes on the open book | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | understand a condition, not said to happen | present | I | Batten | rightly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | use | present · perfect · passive | rhymes = rhyme | long property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | raise | gerund | the | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent the=Theme | |||||
| 5 | occur | present | something | Halliwell and p. | as a riddle rhyme | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in halliwell=Location |
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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