English Fairy Tales, XXXVIII. the Cauld Lad of Hilton., sentence 3
I have written the introductory paragraph so as to convey some information about Brownies, Bogles, and Redcaps, for which Henderson, _l.c.
Who acts: I · What happens: write, convey · To what, where: introductory paragraph, information
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXVIII. the Cauld Lad of Hilton.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 written | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 written | aux |
| 3 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 paragraph | det |
| 5 | introductory | introductory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 paragraph | amod |
| 6 | paragraph | paragraph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 written | obj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 convey | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 convey | mark |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 convey | mark |
| 10 | convey | convey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 written | advcl |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 information | det |
| 12 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 convey | obj |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 Brownies | case |
| 14 | Brownies | brownie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 information | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Bogles | punct |
| 16 | Bogles | bogle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Brownies | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Redcaps | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Redcaps | cc |
| 19 | Redcaps | redcap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 written | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 l.c | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 l.c | obl |
| 23 | Henderson | Henderson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 l.c | compound |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Henderson | punct |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 Henderson | punct |
| 26 | l.c | l.c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 written | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present · perfect | I | the introductory paragraph | Henderson l.c obl | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paragraph=Theme | |||
| 2 | convey | to-infinitive | I not said here | some information | about Brownies and Bogles | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent information=Topic |
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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