English Fairy Tales, XL. Fairy Ointment., sentence 2
I have christened the anonymous midwife and euphemised her profession.
Who acts: I · What happens: christen, euphemis · To what, where: anonymous midwife, profession
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: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 christened | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 christened | aux |
| 3 | christened | christen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 midwife | det |
| 5 | anonymous | anonymous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 midwife | amod |
| 6 | midwife | midwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 christened | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 euphemised | cc |
| 8 | euphemised | euphemis | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 christened | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 profession | nmod:poss |
| 10 | profession | profession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 euphemised | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 christened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | christen | present · perfect | I | the anonymous midwife | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent midwife=Theme | ||||
| 2 | euphemis | past | I not said here | Hartland's profession | tree rules |
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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