More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 5

For some general remarks on the English Folk-Tale and previous collectors, I must refer to the introductory observations added to the Notes and References of _English Fairy Tales_, in the third edition.

Who acts: I · What happens: refer, add · To what, where: third edition, introductory observations, Fairy Tales

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 (I), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 remarks	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 remarks	det
3	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 remarks	amod
4	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 refer	obl
5	on	on	ADP	_	10 Tale	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Tale	det
7	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Tale	amod
8	Folk	Folk	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Tale	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Folk	punct
10	Tale	Tale	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 remarks	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 collectors	cc
12	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 collectors	amod
13	collectors	collector	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 Tale	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 remarks	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 refer	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 refer	aux
17	refer	refer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 observations	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 observations	det
20	introductory	introductory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 observations	amod
21	observations	observation	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 refer	obl
22	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 observations	acl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 Notes	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Notes	det
25	Notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 added	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 References	cc
27	References	reference	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 Notes	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 Tales	case
29	_	_	PUNCT	_	32 Tales	punct
30	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Fairy	compound
31	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Tales	compound
32	Tales	Tale	PROPN	Number=Plur	27 References	nmod
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 added	punct
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 edition	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 edition	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 edition	det
37	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	38 edition	amod
38	edition	edition	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 refer	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 refer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	refer	must	I		the third edition	for some general remarks on the English Folk Tale and previous collectors; to the introductory observations	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to observation=Co-Theme
2	add speech: assert	participle		the introductory observations not said here		to the Notes and References of Fairy Tales	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to note=Co-Patient
3	refer			Fairy Tales			nom reference «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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