English Fairy Tales, XXXV. the Fish and the Ring., sentence 4
“Letters to kill bearer” have been traced from Homer downwards by Prof.
Who acts: Prof · What happens: kill, trace · To what, where: bearer, Letters, Homer
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXV. the Fish and the Ring.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prof), 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 | _ | 9 traced | punct |
| 2 | Letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 traced | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 kill | mark |
| 4 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Letters | acl |
| 5 | bearer | bearer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kill | obj |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bearer | punct |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 traced | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 traced | aux:pass |
| 9 | traced | trace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Homer | case |
| 11 | Homer | homer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 traced | obl |
| 12 | downwards | downwards | ADV | _ | 9 traced | advmod |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 Prof | case |
| 14 | Prof | Prof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 traced | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 traced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | to-infinitive | Prof not said here | bearer | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bearer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | trace | present · perfect · passive | Prof | Letters | Homer | downwards property | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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