More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 33
The opening formulæ are varied enough, but none of them has much play of fancy. "
Who acts: opening formulæ, none, fancy · What happens: be, have, play · To what, where: much play
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 (opening formulæ, none, fancy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 formulæ | det |
| 2 | opening | opening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 formulæ | amod |
| 3 | formulæ | formulæ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 varied | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 varied | cop |
| 5 | varied | varied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 5 varied | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 has | cc |
| 9 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 12 has | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 none | nmod |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 varied | parataxis |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 play | amod |
| 14 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 fancy | case |
| 16 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 play | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 varied | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 varied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the opening formulæ | enough, varied property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | none | much play of fancy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Patient | ||||
| 3 | play | fancy | nom play «communication intransitive»: of=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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