English Fairy Tales, XLI. the Well of the World's End., sentence 6
_Parallels_.--Sir W. Scott remembered a similar story; see Taylor's _Gammer Grethel, ad fin_.
Who acts: Parallels · What happens: remember, see · To what, where: similar story, _ Gammer
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 (Parallels), 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 Parallels | punct |
| 2 | Parallels | parallel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 remembered | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 8 remembered | punct |
| 5 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 W. | nmod:desc |
| 6 | W. | W. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 remembered | nsubj |
| 7 | Scott | Scott | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 W. | flat |
| 8 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 story | det |
| 10 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 story | amod |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remembered | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 remembered | parataxis |
| 14 | Taylor | Taylor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Gammer | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Taylor | case |
| 16 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Gammer | compound |
| 17 | Gammer | Gammer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obj |
| 18 | Grethel | Grethel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Gammer | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fin | punct |
| 20 | ad | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fin | compound |
| 21 | fin | fin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Gammer | appos |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | Parallels | a similar story | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | Taylor's _ Gammer | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gammer=Stimulus |
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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