More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 25

Meanwhile my collection must stand for the nucleus of the English folk-tale, and we can at any rate judge of its general spirit and tendencies from the eighty-seven tales now before the reader.

Who acts: collection · What happens: stand · To what, where: rate judge

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 (collection), 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	_	5 stand	advmod
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 collection	nmod:poss
3	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stand	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stand	aux
5	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 nucleus	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nucleus	det
8	nucleus	nucleus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stand	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	14 tale	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tale	det
11	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tale	amod
12	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tale	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 folk	punct
14	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nucleus	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 can	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 can	cc
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 can	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stand	parataxis
19	at	at	ADP	_	22 judge	case
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 judge	det
21	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 judge	compound
22	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stand	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 spirit	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 spirit	nmod:poss
25	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 spirit	amod
26	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 judge	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tendencies	cc
28	tendencies	tendency	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 spirit	conj
29	from	from	ADP	_	34 tales	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 tales	det
31	eighty	eighty	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tales	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 seven	punct
33	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 tales	nummod
34	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 tendencies	nmod
35	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 stand	advmod
36	before	before	ADP	_	38 reader	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 reader	det
38	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stand	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	must	my collection			any rate judge of collection's general spirit and tendencies from the eighty seven tales	before the reader; now	for the nucleus of the English folk tale; meanwhile property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at judge=Location

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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