English Fairy Tales, XXXIX. Ass, Table and Stick., sentence 11
But there is a check; rain is withheld, the process of vegetation is stayed by some evil influence.
Who acts: check, evil influence · What happens: be, withhold, stay, process · To what, where: rain, process, vegetation
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXIX. Ass, Table and Stick.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (check, evil influence), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 is | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 check | det |
| 5 | check | check | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 withheld | punct |
| 7 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 withheld | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 withheld | aux:pass |
| 9 | withheld | withhold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 is | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stayed | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 process | det |
| 12 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stayed | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 vegetation | case |
| 14 | vegetation | vegetation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 process | nmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 stayed | aux:pass |
| 16 | stayed | stay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 withheld | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 influence | case |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 influence | det |
| 19 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 influence | amod |
| 20 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stayed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a check | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | withhold | present · passive | rain | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stay | present · passive | some evil influence | the process of vegetation | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme subject=Location | ||||
| 4 | process | vegetation | nom process «act transitive»: of=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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