English Fairy Tales, XXXIX. Ass, Table and Stick., sentence 4
_Parallels_.--Mr. Baring-Gould gives another version from the East Riding, _l.c.
Who acts: Parallels · What happens: give · To what, where: version, East Riding
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 (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 | 9 gives | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 5 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Baring | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Baring | Baring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Parallels | nmod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Gould | punct |
| 8 | Gould | Gould | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Baring | conj |
| 9 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 version | det |
| 11 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gives | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Riding | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Riding | det |
| 14 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Riding | compound |
| 15 | Riding | Riding | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 version | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 l.c | punct |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 l.c | punct |
| 18 | l.c | l.c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 version | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Parallels Baring Mr. and Gould | another version and l.c | the East Riding | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Theme |
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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