More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 13
A further examination of English nursery rhymes may result in some additions to our stock.
Who acts: further examination, our · What happens: result, examine, stock · To what, where: additions, English nursery rhymes
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 (further examination, our), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 examination | det |
| 2 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 examination | amod |
| 3 | examination | examination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 result | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 rhymes | case |
| 5 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rhymes | amod |
| 6 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rhymes | compound |
| 7 | rhymes | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 examination | nmod |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 result | aux |
| 9 | result | result | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 additions | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 additions | det |
| 12 | additions | addition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 result | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 stock | case |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 stock | nmod:poss |
| 15 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 result | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 result | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | result | may | a further examination of English nursery rhymes | some additions | to our stock | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in addition=Location | |||
| 2 | examine | English nursery rhymes | nom examination «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | stock | our | nom stock «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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