English Fairy Tales, XXVIII. Johnny-cake., sentence 3
_Parallels_.--Another variant is given in the same _Journal_, p. 277, where reference is also made to a version “The Gingerbread Boy,” in _St. Nicholas_, May 1875.
Who acts: Parallels · What happens: give, make · To what, where: variant, same _ Journal, reference, _ Nicholas
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVIII. Johnny-cake.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parallels), 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 | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 given | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 8 given | punct |
| 5 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 variant | det |
| 6 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 given | aux:pass |
| 8 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Parallels | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Journal | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Journal | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Journal | amod |
| 12 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Journal | compound |
| 13 | Journal | Journal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 given | obl |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Journal | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 p. | punct |
| 16 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Journal | conj |
| 17 | 277 | 277 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 p. | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 made | advmod |
| 20 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 made | aux:pass |
| 22 | also | also | ADV | _ | 23 made | advmod |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 Journal | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 version | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 version | det |
| 26 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obl |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Boy | punct |
| 28 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Boy | det |
| 29 | Gingerbread | Gingerbread | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Boy | compound |
| 30 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 version | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Boy | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Boy | punct |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 Nicholas | case |
| 34 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Nicholas | compound |
| 35 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Nicholas | nmod:desc |
| 36 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obl |
| 37 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 36 Nicholas | punct |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 1875 | punct |
| 39 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 1875 | nmod:unmarked |
| 40 | 1875 | 1875 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 Nicholas | appos |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | Parallels not said here | another variant | the same _ Journal and p. | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | present · passive | reference | _ Nicholas St. | to a version | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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