More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 57

Every seven years the Elves pay their tithe to the Nether world, and for all the Queen makes much of me, I fear it is myself that will be the tithe."

Who acts: seven years, Queen, I, myself · What happens: pay, make, fear, be · To what, where: tithe, much

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven years, Queen, I, myself), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 years	det
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pay	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Elves	det
5	Elves	Elf	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 years	nmod
6	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tithe	nmod:poss
8	tithe	tithe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pay	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
11	Nether	nether	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 world	amod
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pay	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fear	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fear	cc
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 makes	mark
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 makes	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Queen	det
18	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 makes	nsubj
19	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 fear	advcl
20	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 makes	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 much	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 makes	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 fear	nsubj
25	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 tithe	advcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fear	obj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 tithe	cop
28	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 tithe	nsubj
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 tithe	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 tithe	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 tithe	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 tithe	det
33	tithe	tithe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pay	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 tithe	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 tithe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pay	present	every seven years the Elves	Elves's tithe	to the Nether world	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tithe=Asset
2	make	present	the Queen	much		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Product
3	fear	present	I	tithe		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	is a	present	myself	the tithe		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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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