English Fairy Tales, XX. Henny-penny., sentence 2

The fun consists in the avoidance of all pronouns, which results in jaw-breaking sentences almost equal to the celebrated “She stood at the door of the fish-sauce shop, welcoming him in.”

Who acts: fun · What happens: consist, celebrate, stand, welcome in, avoid · To what, where: avoidance, door, Australia, pronouns

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XX. Henny-penny.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fun), 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 fun	det
2	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 consists	nsubj
3	consists	consist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 avoidance	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 avoidance	det
6	avoidance	avoidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 consists	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 pronouns	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 pronouns	det
9	pronouns	pronoun	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 avoidance	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 results	punct
11	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	12 results	det
12	results	result	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pronouns	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 sentences	case
14	jaw	jaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 breaking	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 jaw	punct
16	breaking	breaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sentences	compound
17	sentences	sentence	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 consists	obl
18	almost	almost	ADV	_	19 equal	advmod
19	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sentences	amod
20	to	to	SCONJ	_	22 celebrated	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 celebrated	det
22	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 equal	ccomp
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 stood	punct
24	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 stood	nsubj
25	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 celebrated	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 door	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 door	det
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stood	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	34 shop	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 shop	det
31	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sauce	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 fish	punct
33	sauce	sauce	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 shop	compound
34	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 door	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 welcoming	punct
36	welcoming	welcome	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 stood	advcl
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 welcoming	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	36 welcoming	compound:prt
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 celebrated	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 consists	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	consist	present	the fun		the avoidance of all pronouns and which results	in breaking sentences	tree rules
2	celebrate	participle	the fun not said here				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	stand in a quote	past	fun		the door of the sauce shop		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
4	welcome in in a quote	gerund	fun not said here	Australia			vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	avoid			all pronouns and which results			nom avoidance «act transitive»: of=patient

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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