More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 22

Just as the Anglo-Irish Pale preserves more of the pronunciation of Shakespeare's time, so it is probable that Anglo-Irish stories preserve best those current in Shakespeare's time in English.

Who acts: Irish Pale, Pale, Irish stories · What happens: preserve, be, pronounce · To what, where: more, current, time

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 (Irish Pale, Pale, Irish stories), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	8 preserves	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 preserves	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Pale	det
4	Anglo	Anglo	X	_	6 Irish	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Anglo	punct
6	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Pale	amod
7	Pale	Pale	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 preserves	nsubj
8	preserves	preserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 preserves	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 pronunciation	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pronunciation	det
12	pronunciation	pronunciation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 more	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 time	case
14	Shakespeare	Shakespeare	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 time	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Shakespeare	case
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pronunciation	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 probable	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 probable	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 probable	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 probable	cop
21	probable	probable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 preserves	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 preserve	mark
23	Anglo	Anglo	X	_	25 Irish	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 Anglo	punct
25	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 stories	amod
26	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 preserve	nsubj
27	preserve	preserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 probable	advcl
28	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	27 preserve	advmod
29	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	30 current	det
30	current	current	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 preserve	obl:unmarked
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 time	case
32	Shakespeare	Shakespeare	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 time	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 Shakespeare	case
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 preserve	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 English	case
36	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 time	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 preserves	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	preserve	present	the Irish Pale	more			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Beneficiary
2	is	present	Pale			probable property	tree rules
3	preserve	present	Irish stories	that current	time	well property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	pronounce			Shakespeare's time			nom pronunciation «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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