English Fairy Tales, XXXI. Dick Whittington., sentence 3
_Parallels_.--Whittington's cat has made the fortune of his master in all parts of the Old World, as Mr. W. A. Clouston, among others, has shown, _Popular Tales and Fictions_, ii.
Who acts: Parallels · What happens: make, show · To what, where: cat, Parallels
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 (Parallels), 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 Parallels | punct |
| 2 | Parallels | parallel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 5 | Whittington | Whittington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cat | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Whittington | case |
| 7 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | aux |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Parallels | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fortune | det |
| 11 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 master | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 master | nmod:poss |
| 14 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fortune | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 parts | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 parts | det |
| 17 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 master | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 World | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 World | det |
| 20 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 World | amod |
| 21 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 parts | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Clouston | punct |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 Clouston | case |
| 24 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 W. | nmod:desc |
| 25 | W. | W. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Clouston | compound |
| 26 | A. | A. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 W. | flat |
| 27 | Clouston | Clouston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 others | punct |
| 29 | among | among | ADP | _ | 30 others | case |
| 30 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 Clouston | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Clouston | punct |
| 32 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 shown | aux |
| 33 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 shown | punct |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 37 Tales | punct |
| 36 | Popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 Tales | amod |
| 37 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 shown | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 Fictions | cc |
| 39 | Fictions | fiction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 Tales | conj |
| 40 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 37 Tales | punct |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 ii | punct |
| 42 | ii | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 37 Tales | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 shown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · perfect · passive | Parallels not said here | Whittington's cat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary fortune=Product | ||||
| 2 | show | present · perfect · passive | Parallels | Popular Tales and Fictions obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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