More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 51

All this helps to give the colloquial and familiar air to the English fairy-tale not to mention the dialectal and archaic words and phrases which occur in them.

Who acts: this, archaic words · What happens: help, give, not mention, occur · To what, where: colloquial, English fairy tale, dialectal

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 (this, archaic words), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 this	det:predet
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 helps	nsubj
3	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 give	mark
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 helps	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 colloquial	det
7	colloquial	colloquial	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 air	cc
9	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 air	amod
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 colloquial	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	16 tale	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tale	det
13	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tale	amod
14	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tale	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 fairy	punct
16	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obl
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 mention	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 mention	mark
19	mention	mention	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 give	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dialectal	det
21	dialectal	dialectal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mention	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 words	cc
23	archaic	archaic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 words	amod
24	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 dialectal	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 phrases	cc
26	phrases	phrase	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 words	conj
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 occur	nsubj
28	occur	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 words	acl:relcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 occur	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 helps	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	help	present	this				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	give	to-infinitive	this not said here	the colloquial and familiar air	the English fairy tale		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent colloquial=Theme to tale=Recipient
3	not mention speech: other	to-infinitive	this not said here	the dialectal and archaic words and phrases			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dialectal=Topic
4	occur	present	archaic words and phrases			in phrases = phrase	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in they=Location

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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