English Fairy Tales, XXIV. Golden Arm., sentence 3
Mr. Burne-Jones remembers hearing it in his youth in Warwickshire.
Who acts: Burne · What happens: remember, hear · To what, where: Gould, youth
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Golden Arm.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Burne), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Burne | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Burne | Burne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 remembers | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Jones | punct |
| 4 | Jones | Jones | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Burne | flat |
| 5 | remembers | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 remembers | xcomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hearing | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 youth | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 youth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hearing | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Warwickshire | case |
| 12 | Warwickshire | Warwickshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 youth | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remembers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present | Burne Mr. | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | Burne Mr. not said here | Gould | Burne's youth in Warwickshire | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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