English Fairy Tales, XL. Fairy Ointment., sentence 5
_; the most interesting of these is from Gervase of Tilbury (xiii. cent.), _Otia Imper.
What happens: be · To what, where: interesting Gervase
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 | _ | 10 Gervase | punct |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 interesting | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 interesting | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 interesting | advmod |
| 5 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Gervase | amod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 these | case |
| 7 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 interesting | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Gervase | cop |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Gervase | case |
| 10 | Gervase | Gervase | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Tilbury | case |
| 12 | Tilbury | Tilbury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Gervase | nmod |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 xiii | punct |
| 14 | xiii | xiii | NUM | _ | 10 Gervase | flat |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 cent | punct |
| 16 | cent | cent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Gervase | appos |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 cent | punct |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 cent | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Otia | punct |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 Otia | punct |
| 21 | Otia | Otia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Gervase | conj |
| 22 | Imper | Imper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Otia | flat |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Gervase | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | interesting Gervase and Otia | of Tilbury | 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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