English Fairy Tales, XLIII. the Three Heads of the Well., sentence 8
The contrasted fates of two step-sisters, is the Frau Holle (Grimm, No. 24) type of Folk-tale studied by Cosquin, i. 250, _seq.
What happens: be, study, fate, type · To what, where: Frau Holle, Folk tale, two step sisters
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fates | det |
| 2 | contrasted | contrasted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fates | amod |
| 3 | fates | fate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 type | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sisters | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 sisters | nummod |
| 6 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sisters | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 step | punct |
| 8 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fates | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Holle | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Holle | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Holle | det |
| 12 | Frau | Frau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Holle | compound |
| 13 | Holle | Holle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 type | compound |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 Grimm | punct |
| 15 | Grimm | Grimm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Holle | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 24 | punct |
| 17 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 18 24 | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 Grimm | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 Grimm | punct |
| 20 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 tale | case |
| 22 | Folk | Folk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 tale | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Folk | punct |
| 24 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 type | nmod |
| 25 | studied | study | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 tale | acl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 Cosquin | case |
| 27 | Cosquin | Cosquin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 studied | obl:agent |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 250 | punct |
| 29 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 30 250 | nsubj |
| 30 | 250 | 250 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 tale | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 seq | punct |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 seq | punct |
| 33 | seq | seq | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 type | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 type | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Frau Holle | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | study | participle | Folk tale not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fate | two step sisters | nom fate «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | type | Folk tale | nom type «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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