English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 70
It is of course curious to contrast Mr. Batten's frontispiece with the central chamber of the How, but the essential features are the same.
Who acts: passage, essential features · What happens: be, contrast · To what, where: frontispiece
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 (passage, essential features), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 curious | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 curious | cop |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 curious | case |
| 4 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 of | fixed |
| 5 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 contrast | mark |
| 7 | contrast | contrast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 curious | advcl |
| 8 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Batten | nmod:desc |
| 9 | Batten | Batten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 frontispiece | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Batten | case |
| 11 | frontispiece | frontispiece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 contrast | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 chamber | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chamber | det |
| 14 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 chamber | amod |
| 15 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 contrast | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 How | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 How | det |
| 18 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 chamber | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 same | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 same | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 features | det |
| 22 | essential | essential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 features | amod |
| 23 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 same | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 same | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 same | det |
| 26 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 curious | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 curious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | passage | curious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | contrast | to-infinitive | passage not said here | Batten Mr.'s frontispiece | with the central chamber | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent frontispiece=Patient with chamber=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | is | present | the essential features | same property | 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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