English Fairy Tales, XXX. Mr. Miacca., sentence 6
_Remarks_.--Mr. Miacca seems to have played the double _rôle_ of a domestic Providence.
Who acts: Miacca · What happens: seem, play · To what, where: Remarks, _ rôle _
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXX. Mr. Miacca.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miacca), 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 Remarks | punct |
| 2 | Remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 seems | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 7 seems | punct |
| 5 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Miacca | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Miacca | Miacca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 seems | nsubj |
| 7 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Remarks | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 played | mark |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 played | aux |
| 10 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 seems | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 _ | det |
| 12 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 _ | amod |
| 13 | _ | _ | X | _ | 15 _ | compound |
| 14 | rôle | rôle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 _ | amod |
| 15 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 played | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Providence | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 Providence | det |
| 18 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Providence | amod |
| 19 | Providence | providence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 _ | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Remarks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | Miacca Mr. | Remarks not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive · perfect | Miacca Mr. not said here | the _ rôle _ of a domestic Providence | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent _=Theme |
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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