English Fairy Tales, XXII. Molly Whuppie., sentence 2
I have modified the dialect and changed “Mally” into “Molly.”
Who acts: I · What happens: modify, change · To what, where: dialect, Molly
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXII. Molly Whuppie.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 modified | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 modified | aux |
| 3 | modified | modify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dialect | det |
| 5 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 modified | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 changed | cc |
| 7 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 modified | conj |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Mally | punct |
| 9 | Mally | mally | ADV | _ | 7 changed | advmod |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Mally | punct |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 Molly | case |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Molly | punct |
| 13 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 changed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 modified | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 modified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | modify | present · perfect | I | the dialect | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dialect=Patient | ||||
| 2 | change | past | I not said here | into Molly result; mally property | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into molly=Result |
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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