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

The result of my investigations confirms me in my impression that the scope of the English folk-tale should include all those current among the folk in English, no matter where spoken, in Ireland, the Lowlands, New England, or Australia.

Who acts: result, scope, my · What happens: confirm, include, speak, result, investigate, impress · To what, where: me, impression, Ireland, investigations · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (result, scope, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg14241:1800): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 result	det
2	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 confirms	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 investigations	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 investigations	nmod:poss
5	investigations	investigation	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 result	nmod
6	confirms	confirm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 confirms	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 impression	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 impression	nmod:poss
10	impression	impression	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 confirms	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 include	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 scope	det
13	scope	scope	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 include	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	19 tale	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tale	det
16	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tale	amod
17	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tale	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 folk	punct
19	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 scope	nmod
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 include	aux
21	include	include	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 impression	acl
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 those	det:predet
23	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 include	obj
24	current	current	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 those	amod
25	among	among	ADP	_	27 folk	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 folk	det
27	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 current	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 English	case
29	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 current	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 matter	punct
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 matter	det
32	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 current	obl:unmarked
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 spoken	advmod
34	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 matter	acl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Ireland	punct
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 Ireland	case
37	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 spoken	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Lowlands	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Lowlands	det
40	Lowlands	Lowlands	PROPN	Number=Plur	37 Ireland	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 England	punct
42	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 England	compound
43	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Ireland	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 Australia	punct
45	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 Australia	cc
46	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Ireland	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 confirms	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	confirm	present	the result of my investigations	me	my impression	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Topic
2	include	should	the scope of the English folk tale	my impression		vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
3	speak speech: other	participle			Ireland and the Lowlands and New England or Australia	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	result			my investigations		nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
5	investigate		my			nom investigation «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
6	impress		my			nom impression «cognition 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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