English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 18
_King Lear_, act iii. sc. 4, _ad fin_.
Who acts: _ · What happens: act · To what, where: iii
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 act | nsubj |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Lear | compound |
| 3 | Lear | Lear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | conj |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 6 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | iii | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 6 act | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 act | punct |
| 9 | sc. | sc. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 act | obl |
| 10 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 sc. | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fin | punct |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 fin | punct |
| 13 | ad | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fin | compound |
| 14 | fin | fin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sc. | conj |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 act | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 act | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | act | infinitive | _ and King Lear | iii | sc. and ad fin obl | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent iii=Eventuality |
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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