English Fairy Tales, XLI. the Well of the World's End., sentence 3
The opening formula I have taken from Mayhew, _London Labour_, iii.
Who acts: I · What happens: take · To what, where: opening formula, Mayhew
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLI. the Well of the World's End.. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 formula | det |
| 2 | opening | opening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 formula | amod |
| 3 | formula | formula | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 taken | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 formula | acl:relcl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Mayhew | case |
| 8 | Mayhew | Mayhew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 formula | punct |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Labour | punct |
| 11 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Labour | compound |
| 12 | Labour | Labour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 formula | conj |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Labour | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 iii | punct |
| 15 | iii | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 12 Labour | flat |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 formula | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · perfect | I | the opening formula and London Labour not said here | Mayhew | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent formula=Theme from mayhew=Initial_Location |
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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