English Fairy Tales, XXIII. Red Ettin., sentence 4
I have substituted riddles from the first English collection of riddles, _The Demandes Joyous_ of Wynkyn de Worde, for the poor ones of the original, which are besides not solved.
Who acts: I, Demandes · What happens: substitute, _, not solve · To what, where: riddles, first English collection, poor ones
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIII. Red Ettin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Demandes), 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 substituted | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 substituted | aux |
| 3 | substituted | substitute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | riddles | riddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 substituted | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 collection | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 collection | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 collection | amod |
| 8 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 collection | compound |
| 9 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 substituted | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 riddles | case |
| 11 | riddles | riddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 collection | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 _ | punct |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 Demandes | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Demandes | det |
| 15 | Demandes | Demande | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 _ | nsubj |
| 16 | Joyous | joyous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 _ | amod |
| 17 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 substituted | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Wynkyn | case |
| 19 | Wynkyn | Wynkyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 _ | nmod |
| 20 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Wynkyn | flat |
| 21 | Worde | Worde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Wynkyn | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ones | punct |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 ones | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ones | det |
| 25 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ones | amod |
| 26 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 substituted | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 original | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 original | det |
| 29 | original | original | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ones | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 solved | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 solved | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 solved | aux:pass |
| 33 | besides | beside | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 solved | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 solved | advmod |
| 35 | solved | solve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 ones | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 substituted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | substitute | present · perfect | I | riddles | the first English collection of riddles | for the poor ones of the original | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Theme riddle=Location | ||
| 2 | _ | the Demandes | of Wynkyn | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not solve | present · passive | the poor ones of the original | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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