English Fairy Tales, XXVIII. Johnny-cake., sentence 6
“The Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow” in _Uncle Remus_ is similar to that of Johnny-Cake.
Who acts: Fate · What happens: be
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 (Fate), 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 | _ | 3 Fate | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fate | det |
| 3 | Fate | Fate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 similar | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Sparrow | case |
| 5 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Sparrow | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Sparrow | compound |
| 7 | Sparrow | Sparrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Fate | nmod |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Fate | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Uncle | case |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Uncle | punct |
| 11 | Uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Fate | nmod |
| 12 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Uncle | appos |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Fate | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 similar | cop |
| 15 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 that | case |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 similar | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Cake | case |
| 19 | Johnny | Johnny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Cake | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Johnny | punct |
| 21 | Cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 that | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 similar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Fate of Jack Sparrow Mr. in Uncle | to that; similar property | 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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