More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 11
Newell, who is collecting the English folk-tales that still remain current in New England.
Who acts: Newell · What happens: collect, remain · To what, where: English folk tales
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Newell), 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 | Newell | Newell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 collecting | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 collecting | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 collecting | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 collecting | aux |
| 5 | collecting | collect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tales | det |
| 7 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tales | amod |
| 8 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tales | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 folk | punct |
| 10 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 collecting | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 remain | obj |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 remain | advmod |
| 13 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tales | acl:relcl |
| 14 | current | current | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 remain | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 England | case |
| 16 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 England | flat |
| 17 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 current | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 collecting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | present · progressive | Newell | the English folk tales | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remain | present | the English folk tales | still | current property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Attribute |
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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