English Fairy Tales, XXIII. Red Ettin., sentence 8
The “death index,” as we may call tokens that tell the state of health of a parted partner, is a usual incident in the theme of the Two Brothers, and has been studied by the Grimms, i. 421, 453; ii.
Who acts: we, tokens, death index, Grimms · What happens: call, tell, part, be, study · To what, where: tokens, state, usual incident, theme · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (we, tokens, death index, Grimms), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 index | det |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 index | punct |
| 3 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 index | compound |
| 4 | index | index | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 incident | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 index | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 index | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 call | mark |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 call | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 call | aux |
| 10 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 index | acl |
| 11 | tokens | token | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 call | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 tell | nsubj |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 tokens | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 state | det |
| 15 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tell | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 health | case |
| 17 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 state | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 partner | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 partner | det |
| 20 | parted | part | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 partner | amod |
| 21 | partner | partner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 health | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 index | punct |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 incident | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 incident | det |
| 25 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 incident | amod |
| 26 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 theme | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 theme | det |
| 29 | theme | theme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 incident | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Brothers | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Brothers | det |
| 32 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 Brothers | nummod |
| 33 | Brothers | Brother | PROPN | Number=Plur | 29 theme | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 studied | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 studied | cc |
| 36 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 studied | aux |
| 37 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 studied | aux:pass |
| 38 | studied | study | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 incident | acl |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 Grimms | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Grimms | det |
| 41 | Grimms | Grimm | PROPN | Number=Plur | 38 studied | obl:agent |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 421 | punct |
| 43 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 44 421 | nsubj |
| 44 | 421 | 421 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 Grimms | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 453 | punct |
| 46 | 453 | 453 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 44 421 | conj |
| 47 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 ii | punct |
| 48 | ii | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 26 incident | flat |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 incident | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | may | we | tokens | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent token=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | tokens | the state of health of a parted partner | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent state=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | part | participle | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | the death index | a usual incident | the theme of the Two Brothers | tree rules | |||
| 5 | study | present · perfect · passive | the Grimms 421 | a usual incident not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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