English Fairy Tales, XLI. the Well of the World's End., sentence 7

In Scotland it is Chambers's tale of _The Paddo_, p. 87; Leyden supposes it is referred to in the _Complaynt_, (c. 1548), as “The Wolf of the Warldis End.”

Who acts: story, Leyden · What happens: be, suppose, refer · To what, where: tale, Scotland, story, Complaynt

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 (story, Leyden), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Scotland	case
2	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tale	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tale	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tale	cop
5	Chambers	Chambers	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tale	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Chambers	case
7	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 Paddo	case
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 of	punct
10	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Paddo	det
11	Paddo	Paddo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tale	nmod
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 Paddo	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 p.	punct
14	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Paddo	conj
15	87	87	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 p.	flat
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 supposes	punct
17	Leyden	Leyden	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 supposes	nsubj
18	supposes	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tale	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 referred	nsubj:pass
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 referred	aux:pass
21	referred	refer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 supposes	xcomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	21 referred	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 Complaynt	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Complaynt	det
25	_	_	PUNCT	_	26 Complaynt	punct
26	Complaynt	Complaynt	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 referred	obl
27	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 referred	punct
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 1548	punct
29	(	(	PUNCT	_	31 1548	punct
30	c.	c.	X	Foreign=Yes	31 1548	nsubj
31	1548	1548	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 tale	appos
32	)	)	PUNCT	_	31 1548	punct
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Wolf	punct
34	as	as	ADP	_	37 Wolf	case
35	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 Wolf	punct
36	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Wolf	det
37	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tale	appos
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 End	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 End	det
40	Warldis	Warldis	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 End	compound
41	End	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Wolf	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 Wolf	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 tale	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	story	Chambers's tale	Scotland	of the Paddo and p.	tree rules
2	suppose	present	Leyden				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	refer	present · passive		story	the Complaynt		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme

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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