English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 36

This begins with verse, then turns to prose, and throughout drops again at intervals into poetry in a friendly way like Mr. Wegg.

Who acts: This · What happens: begin, turn, prose

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 (This), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 begins	nsubj
2	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 verse	case
4	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 begins	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 turns	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 turns	advmod
7	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 begins	parataxis
8	to	to	PART	_	9 prose	mark
9	prose	prose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 turns	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drops	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 drops	cc
12	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	13 drops	case
13	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 turns	conj
14	again	again	ADV	_	13 drops	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 intervals	case
16	intervals	interval	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 drops	nmod
17	into	into	ADP	_	18 poetry	case
18	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drops	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 way	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 way	det
21	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 way	amod
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 poetry	nmod
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 Wegg	case
24	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Wegg	nmod:desc
25	Wegg	Wegg	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 way	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 begins	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	begin	present	This		with verse	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with verse=Subeventuality
2	turn	present		then		tree rules
3	prose	to-infinitive				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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