English Fairy Tales, XXXIII. the Laidly Worm., sentence 8
_Parallels_.--The ballad of “Kempe Owein” is a more general version which “The Laidly Worm” has localised near Bamborough.
Who acts: ballad · What happens: be, localise · To what, where: more general version, Laidly Worm, Bamborough
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 (ballad), 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 | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 version | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 16 version | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ballad | det |
| 6 | ballad | ballad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 version | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Owein | case |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Owein | punct |
| 9 | Kempe | Kempe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Owein | compound |
| 10 | Owein | Owein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ballad | nmod |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Owein | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 version | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 version | det |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 version | amod |
| 15 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 version | amod |
| 16 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Parallels | appos |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 localised | obj |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Worm | punct |
| 19 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Worm | det |
| 20 | Laidly | Laidly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Worm | compound |
| 21 | Worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 localised | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Worm | punct |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 localised | aux |
| 24 | localised | localise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 version | acl:relcl |
| 25 | near | near | ADP | _ | 26 Bamborough | case |
| 26 | Bamborough | Bamborough | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 localised | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the ballad of Kempe Owein | a more general version | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | localise | present · perfect · passive | the Laidly Worm | Bamborough | tree rules |
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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