English Fairy Tales, XVII. Jack and His Snuff-box., sentence 5
The choice between a small cake with a blessing, &c., is frequent (_cf.
Who acts: choice · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. Jack and His Snuff-box.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (choice), 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 choice | det |
| 2 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 frequent | nsubj |
| 3 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 cake | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cake | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cake | amod |
| 6 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 choice | nmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 blessing | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 blessing | det |
| 9 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cake | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 c. | punct |
| 11 | & | & | CCONJ | _ | 12 c. | cc |
| 12 | c. | c. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blessing | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 choice | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 frequent | cop |
| 15 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 cf | punct |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 cf | punct |
| 18 | cf | cf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 frequent | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 frequent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the choice between a small cake with a blessing & c. | frequent property | 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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