English Fairy Tales, XXXIII. the Laidly Worm., sentence 3
A florid prose version appeared in _Monthly Chronicle of North Country Lore_ for May 1890.
Who acts: florid prose version · What happens: appear · To what, where: _ Monthly Chronicle
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: who acts (florid prose version), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 version | det |
| 2 | florid | florid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 version | amod |
| 3 | prose | prose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 version | compound |
| 4 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | nsubj |
| 5 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Chronicle | case |
| 7 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Chronicle | compound |
| 8 | Monthly | Monthly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Chronicle | compound |
| 9 | Chronicle | Chronicle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Country | case |
| 11 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Country | compound |
| 12 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Chronicle | nmod |
| 13 | Lore | Lore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Country | flat |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 appeared | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 May | case |
| 16 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | obl |
| 17 | 1890 | 1890 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 May | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | a florid prose version | _ Monthly Chronicle of North Country | may | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chronicle=Location |
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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