English Fairy Tales, XXXVIII. the Cauld Lad of Hilton., sentence 7
Milton's “lubbar-fiend” in _L'Allegro_ has all the characteristics of a Brownie.
Who acts: lubbar fiend · What happens: have · To what, where: characteristics
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 (lubbar fiend), 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 | Milton | Milton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fiend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Milton | case |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fiend | punct |
| 4 | lubbar | lubbar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fiend | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 lubbar | punct |
| 6 | fiend | fiend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | nsubj |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fiend | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 L'Allegro | case |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 in | punct |
| 10 | L'Allegro | L'Allegro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fiend | nmod |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 L'Allegro | punct |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 characteristics | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 characteristics | det |
| 15 | characteristics | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 has | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Brownie | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Brownie | det |
| 18 | Brownie | Brownie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 characteristics | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Milton's lubbar fiend in L'Allegro | all characteristics of a Brownie | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent characteristic=Patient |
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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