English Fairy Tales, XVIII. the Three Bears., sentence 2
_Parallels_.--None, as the story was invented by Southey.
Who acts: Southey · What happens: invent · To what, where: story
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVIII. the Three Bears.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Southey), 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 | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 None | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | SYM | _ | 5 None | discourse |
| 5 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 2 Parallels | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 invented | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 invented | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 invented | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 invented | aux:pass |
| 11 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Parallels | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Southey | case |
| 13 | Southey | Southey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 invented | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invent | past · passive | Southey | the story | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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