English Fairy Tales, XXXIX. Ass, Table and Stick., sentence 13

Mr. Baring-Gould, it is well-known, has since become a distinguished writer of fiction.

Who acts: Baring · What happens: know, become · To what, where: rain, distinguished writer

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 (Baring), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Baring	nmod:desc
2	Baring	Baring	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 become	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Gould	punct
4	Gould	Gould	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Baring	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 known	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 known	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 known	aux:pass
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 known	advmod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 well	punct
10	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Baring	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Baring	punct
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 become	aux
13	since	since	ADV	_	14 become	advmod
14	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 writer	det
16	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 writer	amod
17	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 become	xcomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 fiction	case
19	fiction	fiction	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 writer	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present · passive		rain				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	become	present · perfect	Baring Mr. and Gould	a distinguished writer of fiction				since property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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