More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 14
I reserve these for separate treatment in which I am especially interested, owing to the relations which I surmise between the folk-tale and the _cante-fable_.
Who acts: I · What happens: reserve, be, owe, surmise · To what, where: these, separate treatment, relations
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 reserve | nsubj |
| 2 | reserve | reserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 reserve | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 treatment | case |
| 5 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 treatment | amod |
| 6 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reserve | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 interested | obl |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 interested | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 interested | cop |
| 11 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 12 interested | advmod |
| 12 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 treatment | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 owing | punct |
| 14 | owing | owe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 reserve | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 relations | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 relations | det |
| 17 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 owing | obl |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 surmise | obj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 surmise | nsubj |
| 20 | surmise | surmise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 relations | acl:relcl |
| 21 | between | between | ADP | _ | 25 tale | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tale | det |
| 23 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tale | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 folk | punct |
| 25 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 surmise | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 _ | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 _ | det |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 _ | punct |
| 29 | cante | cante | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fable | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 cante | punct |
| 31 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 _ | compound |
| 32 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tale | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reserve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reserve | present | I | these | for separate treatment | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent this=Theme for treatment=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | is | present | I | separate treatment | especially, interested property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | owe | gerund | I not said here | to the relations goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to relation=Goal | ||||
| 4 | surmise | present | I | the relations | between the folk tale and the fable _ | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
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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