English Fairy Tales, XXXIII. the Laidly Worm., sentence 1
_Source_.--From an eighteenth-century ballad of the Rev. Mr. Lamb of Norham, as given in Prof.
What happens: give · To what, where: century ballad, Prof
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXIII. the Laidly Worm.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Source | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | SYM | _ | 2 Source | discourse |
| 5 | From | from | ADP | _ | 10 ballad | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ballad | det |
| 7 | eighteenth | eighteenth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 century | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 eighteenth | punct |
| 9 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ballad | compound |
| 10 | ballad | ballad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 .-- | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Lamb | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Lamb | det |
| 13 | Rev. | Rev. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Lamb | compound |
| 14 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Lamb | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Lamb | Lamb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ballad | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Norham | case |
| 17 | Norham | Norham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Lamb | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 given | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 given | mark |
| 20 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ballad | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Prof | case |
| 22 | Prof | Prof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 given | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Source | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | participle | a century ballad of the Rev. Lamb Mr. of Norham not said here | Prof | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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