English Fairy Tales, XLII. Master of All Masters., sentence 2
391, told by a lad in a workhouse; (ii) several versions in 7 _Notes and Queries_, iii.
What happens: tell · To what, where: several versions · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLII. Master of All Masters.. 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 | 391 | 391 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 391 | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 lad | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lad | det |
| 6 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 workhouse | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 workhouse | det |
| 9 | workhouse | workhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lad | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 versions | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 ii | punct |
| 12 | ii | ii | NUM | _ | 15 versions | discourse |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 ii | punct |
| 14 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 versions | amod |
| 15 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 told | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 7 | case |
| 17 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 versions | nmod |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 Notes | punct |
| 19 | Notes | Note | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 versions | appos |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Queries | cc |
| 21 | Queries | query | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Notes | conj |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 Notes | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 iii | punct |
| 24 | iii | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 15 versions | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 391 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | participle | several versions in 7 | by a lad in a workhouse | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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