English Fairy Tales, XXXVIII. the Cauld Lad of Hilton., sentence 6
_Parallels_.--The Grimms' “Elves” (No. 39) behave in like manner on being rewarded for their services.
Who acts: Parallels · What happens: behave in, reward, service
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 (Parallels), 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 | 15 behave | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 .-- | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | conj |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Grimms | det |
| 6 | Grimms | Grimm | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 Elves | compound |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 Grimms | case |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Elves | punct |
| 9 | Elves | Elf | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 Parallels | nmod |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Elves | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 No. | punct |
| 12 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 2 Parallels | appos |
| 13 | 39 | 39 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 No. | flat |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 No. | punct |
| 15 | behave | behave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 behave | compound:prt |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 manner | case |
| 18 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 behave | obl |
| 19 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 21 rewarded | mark |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 rewarded | aux:pass |
| 21 | rewarded | reward | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 behave | advcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 services | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 services | nmod:poss |
| 24 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 rewarded | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 behave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behave in | present | Parallels Grimms Elves | like manner | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like manner=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | reward | gerund · passive | Parallels Grimms Elves not said here | for Parallels's services | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: for service=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | service | Parallels = parallel | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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