More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 47

Altogether one third of our collection gives evidence in favour of the _cante-fable_ theory which I adduced in my notes to _Childe Rowland_.

Who acts: one third, theory, my · What happens: give, adduce, favour, note · To what, where: evidence, favour, Childe, notes, cante fable

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 (one third, theory, my), 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	Altogether	altogether	ADV	_	3 third	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 third	nummod
3	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gives	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 collection	case
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 collection	nmod:poss
6	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 third	nmod
7	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gives	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 favour	case
10	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 evidence	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	16 fable	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fable	det
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	16 fable	punct
14	cante	cante	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fable	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 cante	punct
16	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 favour	nmod
17	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 theory	punct
18	theory	theory	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gives	parataxis
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 adduced	nsubj
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 adduced	nsubj
21	adduced	adduce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 theory	acl:relcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 notes	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 notes	nmod:poss
24	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 adduced	obl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 Childe	case
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 to	punct
27	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 adduced	obl
28	Rowland	Rowland	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Childe	flat
29	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 adduced	punct
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	give	present	one third of our collection	evidence		favour of the cante fable	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme
2	adduce	past	theory		Childe	my notes	tree rules
3	favour			the cante fable			nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient
4	note		my				nom note «communication transitive»: poss=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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