English Fairy Tales, XLIII. the Three Heads of the Well., sentence 9
_ “Kate Crackernuts” (No. xxxvii.) is a pleasant contrast to this.
Who acts: Kate Crackernuts · What happens: be · To what, where: pleasant contrast
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 (Kate Crackernuts), 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 | _ | 4 Crackernuts | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Crackernuts | punct |
| 3 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Crackernuts | compound |
| 4 | Crackernuts | crackernut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 contrast | nsubj |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Crackernuts | punct |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 xxxvii | punct |
| 7 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 8 xxxvii | compound |
| 8 | xxxvii | xxxvii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Crackernuts | appos |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 xxxvii | punct |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 xxxvii | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 contrast | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 contrast | det |
| 13 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 contrast | amod |
| 14 | contrast | contrast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 this | case |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 contrast | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 contrast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Kate Crackernuts | a pleasant contrast | to this | tree rules |
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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