English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 22
The latter reference is to the cry of the King of Elfland.
Who acts: latter reference · What happens: be
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 (latter reference), 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 | 3 reference | det |
| 2 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reference | amod |
| 3 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cry | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cry | cop |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 cry | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cry | det |
| 7 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 King | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cry | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Elfland | case |
| 12 | Elfland | Elfland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 King | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the latter reference | to the cry; of the King of Elfland | 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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