English Fairy Tales, XV. Master and Pupil, sentence 7
Friar Bacon was defrauded of his labour in producing the Brazen Head in a similar way.
What happens: defraud, produce · To what, where: Friar, Brazen Head, similar way
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: 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 | Friar | Friar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 defrauded | nsubj |
| 2 | Bacon | Bacon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Friar | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 defrauded | aux:pass |
| 4 | defrauded | defraud | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 labour | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 labour | nmod:poss |
| 7 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 defrauded | obl |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 producing | mark |
| 9 | producing | produce | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 defrauded | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Head | det |
| 11 | Brazen | brazen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Head | amod |
| 12 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 producing | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 way | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 15 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 way | amod |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 producing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 defrauded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | defraud | past · passive | Friar | of Friar's labour | vn cheat-10.6.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | ||||
| 2 | produce | gerund | the Brazen Head | a similar way | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Result |
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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