English Fairy Tales, XLIII. the Three Heads of the Well., sentence 3
_Parallels_.--The story forms part of Peele's _Old Wives' Tale_, where the rhyme was
Who acts: Parallels, rhyme · What happens: form, be · To what, where: part
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIII. the Three Heads of the Well.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parallels, rhyme), 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 | 7 forms | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | SYM | _ | 2 Parallels | discourse |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forms | nsubj |
| 7 | forms | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forms | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Wives | case |
| 10 | Peele | Peele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Wives | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Peele | case |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 Wives | punct |
| 13 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Wives | amod |
| 14 | Wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 part | nmod |
| 15 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 14 Wives | case |
| 16 | Tale | Tale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Wives | appos |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 forms | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 was | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 was | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rhyme | det |
| 21 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 was | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 forms | conj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | present | Parallels | part of Peele's Old Wives | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | the rhyme | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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