English Fairy Tales, XXVI. Mr. Fox., sentence 5

_Parallels_.--Halliwell, p. 166, gives a similar tale of “An Oxford Student,” whose sweetheart saw him digging her grave.

Who acts: Parallels, sweetheart, Student, Oxford Student · What happens: give, see, dig, tell · To what, where: similar tale, Student, grave · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVI. Mr. Fox.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parallels, sweetheart, Student, Oxford Student), 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	10 gives	nsubj
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 Halliwell	punct
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	_	5 Halliwell	punct
5	Halliwell	Halliwell	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Parallels	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 p.	punct
7	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Halliwell	appos
8	166	166	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 p.	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Parallels	punct
10	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tale	det
12	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tale	amod
13	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gives	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 Student	case
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 Student	punct
16	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 Student	det
17	Oxford	Oxford	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Student	compound
18	Student	Student	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 tale	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
21	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	22 sweetheart	nmod:poss
22	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gives	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	obj
25	digging	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 saw	xcomp
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 grave	nmod:poss
27	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 digging	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 gives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	give	present	Parallels Halliwell	a similar tale of a Oxford Student	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme
2	see	past	sweetheart	Student	tree rules
3	dig	gerund	Student not said here	sweetheart's grave	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grave=Theme
4	tell		a Oxford Student		nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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