English Fairy Tales, XXXI. Dick Whittington., sentence 10
It will be noticed that the chap-book puts the introduction of potatoes rather far back.
Who acts: chap book · What happens: notice, put, introduce · To what, where: half, introduction, potatoes
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 (chap book), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 noticed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 noticed | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 noticed | aux:pass |
| 4 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 puts | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 book | det |
| 7 | chap | chap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 book | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 chap | punct |
| 9 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 puts | nsubj |
| 10 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 noticed | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 introduction | det |
| 12 | introduction | introduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 puts | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 potatoes | case |
| 14 | potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 introduction | nmod |
| 15 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 17 back | advmod |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 back | advmod |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 potatoes | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | future · passive | half | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | put | present | the chap book | the introduction of potatoes | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent introduction=Goal | ||||
| 3 | introduce | potatoes | nom introduction «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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