English Fairy Tales, XXXI. Dick Whittington., sentence 8
Turn again, Whittington, Thrice and a half Lord Mayor of London.
Who acts: you · What happens: turn
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 (you), 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 | Turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Turn | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Whittington | punct |
| 4 | Whittington | Whittington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Turn | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Thrice | punct |
| 6 | Thrice | Thrice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Whittington | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 half | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 half | det |
| 9 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 4 Whittington | conj |
| 10 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Mayor | compound |
| 11 | Mayor | Mayor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 half | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 London | case |
| 13 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Mayor | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | imperative | you not said here | again | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: 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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