More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 15

Meanwhile the eighty-seven tales (representing some hundred and twenty variants) in my two volumes must represent the English folk-tale as far as my diligence has been able to preserve it at this end of the nineteenth century.

Who acts: eighty tales, diligence · What happens: represent, be, preserve · To what, where: hundred variants, English folk tale, diligence, end

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 (eighty tales, diligence), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	20 represent	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tales	det
3	eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 tales	nummod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 seven	punct
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 eighty	conj
6	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 represent	nsubj
7	(	(	PUNCT	_	8 representing	punct
8	representing	represent	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 tales	acl
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 hundred	det
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 variants	nummod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 twenty	cc
12	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 hundred	conj
13	variants	variant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 representing	obj
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	8 representing	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 volumes	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 volumes	nmod:poss
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 volumes	nummod
18	volumes	volume	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 representing	obl
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 represent	aux
20	represent	represent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tale	det
22	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tale	amod
23	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tale	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 folk	punct
25	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 represent	obj
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 far	advmod
27	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 able	advmod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 able	mark
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 diligence	nmod:poss
30	diligence	diligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 able	nsubj
31	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 able	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 able	cop
33	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 represent	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 preserve	mark
35	preserve	preserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 able	xcomp
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 preserve	obj
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 end	case
38	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 end	det
39	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 preserve	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 century	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 century	det
42	nineteenth	nineteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 century	amod
43	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 end	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 represent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	represent	gerund	the eighty tales not said here	hundred variants		in my two volumes	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot variant=Theme in volume=Attribute
2	represent	must	the eighty tales	the English folk tale		meanwhile property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tale=Theme
3	is	present · perfect	my diligence			able, far property	tree rules
4	preserve	to-infinitive	my diligence not said here	diligence	at this end of the nineteenth century		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary

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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