English Fairy Tales, XXXIX. Ass, Table and Stick., sentence 9
The gold and jewel-dropping ass, is the spring cloud, hanging in the sky and shedding the bright productive vernal showers.
Who acts: gold, spring cloud · What happens: drop, be, hang, shed · To what, where: spring cloud, sky, bright productive vernal showers
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 (gold, spring cloud), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gold | det |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cloud | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ass | cc |
| 4 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ass | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 jewel | punct |
| 6 | dropping | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 ass | amod |
| 7 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gold | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 gold | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 cloud | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cloud | det |
| 11 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cloud | compound |
| 12 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hanging | punct |
| 14 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 cloud | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sky | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sky | det |
| 17 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hanging | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 shedding | cc |
| 19 | shedding | shed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 hanging | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 showers | det |
| 21 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 showers | amod |
| 22 | productive | productive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 showers | amod |
| 23 | vernal | vernal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 showers | amod |
| 24 | showers | shower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 shedding | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cloud | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the gold and jewel dropping ass | the spring cloud | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hang | gerund | the spring cloud not said here | the sky | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sky=Location | ||||
| 4 | shed | gerund | the spring cloud not said here | the bright productive vernal showers | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shower=Source |
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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