More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 52
But their very familiarity and colloquialism make them remarkably effective with English-speaking little ones.
Who acts: familiarity · What happens: make, speak · To what, where: phrases, little ones · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (familiarity), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 make | cc |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 familiarity | nmod:poss |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 familiarity | advmod |
| 4 | familiarity | familiarity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 colloquialism | cc |
| 6 | colloquialism | colloquialism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 familiarity | conj |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | remarkably | remarkably | ADV | _ | 10 effective | advmod |
| 10 | effective | effective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 make | xcomp |
| 11 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 14 speaking | mark |
| 12 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 speaking | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 English | punct |
| 14 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 effective | advcl |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ones | amod |
| 16 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 speaking | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | phrases's familiarity and colloquialism | phrases = phrase | effective property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | phrases's familiarity and colloquialism not said here | little ones | 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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