More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 49
Still more curious is a frequent change of tense from the English present to the past. "
What happens: be · To what, where: curious frequent change
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: 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 3 curious | advmod |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 curious | advmod |
| 3 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 change | amod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 change | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 change | det |
| 6 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 change | amod |
| 7 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tense | case |
| 9 | tense | tense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 change | nmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 present | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 present | det |
| 12 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 present | amod |
| 13 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tense | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 past | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 past | det |
| 16 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 present | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 change | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 change | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a curious frequent change | of tense from the English present to the past | tree rules |
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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