English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 77
By Mr. Gomme's kindness I am enabled to give an illustration of this.
Who acts: kindness, I · What happens: enable, give, illustrate · To what, where: I, illustration, this
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 (kindness, I), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 5 kindness | case |
| 2 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gomme | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Gomme | Gomme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Gomme | case |
| 5 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 enabled | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 enabled | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 enabled | aux:pass |
| 8 | enabled | enable | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 give | mark |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 enabled | xcomp |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 illustration | det |
| 12 | illustration | illustration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 this | case |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 illustration | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 enabled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enable | present · passive | Gomme Mr.'s kindness | I | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | I not said here | a illustration of this | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illustration=Theme | ||||
| 3 | illustrate | this | nom illustration «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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