English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 9
_Parallels_.--The search for the Dark Tower is similar to that of the Red Ettin, (_cf_.
Who acts: search · 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 (search), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 2 | Parallels | parallel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 similar | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 12 similar | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 search | det |
| 6 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 similar | nsubj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 Tower | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Tower | det |
| 9 | Dark | Dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Tower | compound |
| 10 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 search | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 similar | cop |
| 12 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Parallels | amod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 that | case |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 similar | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Ettin | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Ettin | det |
| 17 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ettin | flat |
| 18 | Ettin | Ettin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 that | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 cf | punct |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 cf | punct |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 cf | punct |
| 22 | cf | cf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Parallels | conj |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the search for the Dark Tower | to that; similar 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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