More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 31
Some of this effect is produced by the manner in which the tales are told.
Who acts: manner · What happens: produce, tell · To what, where: effect, tales, manner · 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 (manner), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 effect | det |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 effect | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 effect | det |
| 4 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 produced | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 produced | aux:pass |
| 6 | produced | produce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 manner | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 manner | det |
| 9 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 produced | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 told | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tales | det |
| 13 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 told | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 told | aux:pass |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 manner | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 produced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | produce | present · passive | the manner | some effect | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | the tales | the manner | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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