English Fairy Tales, XL. Fairy Ointment., sentence 1
_Source_.--Mrs. Bray, _The Tamar and the Tavy_, i. 174 (letters to Southey), as quoted by Mr. Hartland in _Folk-Lore_, i. 207-8.
What happens: quote · To what, where: Source, Folk
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XL. Fairy Ointment.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 Source | punct |
| 2 | Source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Source | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bray | punct |
| 5 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Bray | compound |
| 6 | Bray | Bray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Source | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Source | punct |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tamar | punct |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Tamar | det |
| 10 | Tamar | Tamar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Source | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Tavy | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Tavy | det |
| 13 | Tavy | Tavy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Tamar | conj |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tamar | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 174 | punct |
| 16 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 174 | nsubj |
| 17 | 174 | 174 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 Tamar | list |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 letters | punct |
| 19 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 174 | appos |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Southey | case |
| 21 | Southey | Southey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 letters | nmod |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 letters | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 quoted | punct |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 quoted | mark |
| 25 | quoted | quote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Source | acl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 Hartland | case |
| 27 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Hartland | nmod:desc |
| 28 | Hartland | Hartland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 quoted | obl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 Folk | case |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 in | punct |
| 31 | Folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 quoted | obl |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 Lore | punct |
| 33 | Lore | Lore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Folk | appos |
| 34 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 Lore | punct |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 207-8 | punct |
| 36 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 37 207-8 | nsubj |
| 37 | 207-8 | 207-8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 Folk | appos |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Source | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quote speech: other | participle | Source not said here | Folk | by Hartland Mr. | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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