English Fairy Tales, XLI. the Well of the World's End., sentence 9

Abroad it is the Grimms' first tale, while frogs who would a-wooing go are discussed by Prof.

Who acts: well, Prof · What happens: be, discuss · To what, where: first tale, frogs

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 (well, Prof), 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	Abroad	abroad	ADV	_	8 tale	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tale	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tale	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Grimms	det
5	Grimms	grimm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tale	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 Grimms	case
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 tale	amod
8	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 frogs	punct
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 frogs	case
11	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tale	appos
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 discussed	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 discussed	aux
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 go	det
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 a	punct
16	wooing	wooing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	compound
17	go	go	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 discussed	nsubj:pass
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 discussed	aux:pass
19	discussed	discuss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 frogs	acl:relcl
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 Prof	case
21	Prof	Prof	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 discussed	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tale	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	well	the Grimms's first tale				abroad property	tree rules
2	discuss speech: other	would · passive	Prof	frogs					vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic

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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