English Fairy Tales, XXVIII. Johnny-cake., sentence 4

Chambers gives two versions of the same story, under the title “The Wee Bunnock,” the first of which is one of the most dramatic and humorous of folk-tales.

Who acts: Chambers, title · What happens: give, be · To what, where: two versions, one

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 (Chambers, title), 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	Chambers	chamber	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 versions	nummod
4	versions	version	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gives	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 story	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 story	amod
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 versions	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 title	punct
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 title	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 title	det
12	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	parataxis
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 Bunnock	punct
14	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Bunnock	det
15	Wee	Wee	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Bunnock	compound
16	Bunnock	Bunnock	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 title	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Bunnock	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 Bunnock	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 first	det
20	first	first	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 one	nmod:poss
21	of	of	ADP	_	20 first	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 one	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 one	cop
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 title	parataxis
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 dramatic	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dramatic	det
27	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	28 dramatic	advmod
28	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 one	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 humorous	cc
30	humorous	humorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 dramatic	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 tales	case
32	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tales	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 folk	punct
34	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 humorous	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Chambers	two versions of the same story					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Theme
2	is a	present	the title	the first's one				of the dramatic	tree rules

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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