English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 27
But a still closer parallel is afforded by Milton's _Comus_.
Who acts: _ · What happens: afford · To what, where: closer parallel
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 afforded | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 parallel | det |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 closer | advmod |
| 4 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 parallel | amod |
| 5 | parallel | parallel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 afforded | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 afforded | aux:pass |
| 7 | afforded | afford | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 _ | case |
| 9 | Milton | Milton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 _ | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Milton | case |
| 11 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 afforded | obl:agent |
| 12 | Comus | Comus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 _ | flat |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 afforded | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 afforded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | afford | present · passive | Milton's _ | a closer parallel | 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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