More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 21

Wherever there is community of language, tales can spread, and it is more likely that tales should be preserved in those parts where English is spoken with most of dialect.

Who acts: community, tales · What happens: be, spread, preserve, speak · To what, where: tales, parts, English · 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 (community, tales), 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	Wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	3 is	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 spread	advcl
4	community	community	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 language	case
6	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 community	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spread	punct
8	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 spread	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 spread	aux
10	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 likely	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 likely	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 likely	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 likely	cop
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 likely	advmod
16	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 spread	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 preserved	mark
18	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 preserved	nsubj:pass
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 preserved	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 preserved	aux:pass
21	preserved	preserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 likely	xcomp
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 parts	case
23	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	24 parts	det
24	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 preserved	obl
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 spoken	advmod
26	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 spoken	nsubj:pass
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 spoken	aux:pass
28	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 parts	acl
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 most	case
30	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 spoken	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 dialect	case
32	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 most	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	community of language		there	wherever property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spread	can	tales				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	community			likely property	tree rules
4	preserve	should · passive		tales	that parts		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
5	speak speech: other	present · passive		English		with most of dialect	tree rules

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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