English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 2
_, who gives it as told by a tailor in his youth, _c._ 1770.
What happens: give, tell · To what, where: seq, 1770 · Speech: someone speaks here
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 gives | punct |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gives | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 gives | nsubj |
| 4 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gives | iobj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 told | mark |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gives | advcl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 tailor | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tailor | det |
| 10 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 youth | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 youth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tailor | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 c. | punct |
| 15 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 c. | compound |
| 16 | c. | c. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tailor | conj |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 1770 | punct |
| 18 | 1770 | 1770 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 told | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | seq | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | participle | 1770 | by a tailor in p.'s youth and _ c. | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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