English Fairy Tales, XXXI. Dick Whittington., sentence 1
_Source_.--I have cobbled this up out of three chap-book versions; (1) that contained in Mr. Hartland's _English Folk-tales_; (2) that edited by Mr. H. B. Wheatley for the Villon Society; (3) that appended to Messrs.
Who acts: that, H., Hartland · What happens: cobble up, contain, edit, append, tell · To what, where: Source, three book versions, 1, Folk tales, 2, Messrs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXI. Dick Whittington.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, H., Hartland), 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 Source | punct |
| 2 | Source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cobbled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Source | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 2 Source | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 cobbled | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cobbled | aux |
| 7 | cobbled | cobble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 cobbled | obj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 cobbled | compound:prt |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 versions | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 versions | case |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 versions | nummod |
| 13 | chap | chap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 book | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 chap | punct |
| 15 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 versions | compound |
| 16 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cobbled | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 contained | punct |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 1 | punct |
| 19 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 contained | obl |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 1 | punct |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 contained | nsubj |
| 22 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cobbled | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 tales | case |
| 24 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Hartland | nmod:desc |
| 25 | Hartland | Hartland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 tales | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Hartland | case |
| 27 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 English | compound |
| 28 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Folk | compound |
| 29 | Folk | Folk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 tales | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Folk | punct |
| 31 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 contained | obl |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 contained | punct |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 edited | punct |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 2 | punct |
| 35 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 edited | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 2 | punct |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 edited | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | edited | edit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 contained | conj |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 H. | case |
| 40 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 H. | nmod:desc |
| 41 | H. | H. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 edited | obl |
| 42 | B. | B. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 H. | flat |
| 43 | Wheatley | Wheatley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 H. | flat |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 Society | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Society | det |
| 46 | Villon | Villon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Society | compound |
| 47 | Society | Society | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 H. | nmod |
| 48 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 50 3 | punct |
| 49 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 50 3 | punct |
| 50 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 contained | obl |
| 51 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 50 3 | punct |
| 52 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 53 appended | nsubj |
| 53 | appended | append | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 contained | conj |
| 54 | to | to | ADP | _ | 55 Messrs | case |
| 55 | Messrs | Messrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 appended | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cobbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cobble up | present · perfect · passive | Source | three book versions | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | contain | past | that | 1 | Hartland Mr.'s Folk tales | 3 obl | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in tale=Location | ||
| 3 | edit | participle · passive | H. Mr. for the Villon Society | 2 | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | append | past | that | Messrs | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | tell | Hartland Mr. | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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