More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 53

The rhythmical phrases stick in their memories; they can remember the exact phraseology of the English tales much better, I find, than that of the Grimms' tales, or even of the Celtic stories.

Who acts: rhythmical phrases, phrases, I, Grimms · What happens: stick, remember, find, tell · To what, where: memories, exact phraseology, that · 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 (rhythmical phrases, phrases, I, Grimms), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 phrases	det
2	rhythmical	rhythmical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 phrases	amod
3	phrases	phrase	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stick	nsubj
4	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 memories	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 memories	nmod:poss
7	memories	memory	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stick	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 remember	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 remember	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 remember	aux
11	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stick	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 phraseology	det
13	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 phraseology	amod
14	phraseology	phraseology	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remember	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 tales	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tales	det
17	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tales	amod
18	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 phraseology	nmod
19	much	much	ADV	_	20 better	advmod
20	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 tales	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 find	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 find	nsubj
23	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 remember	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 that	punct
25	than	than	ADP	_	26 that	case
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 find	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	31 tales	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Grimms	det
29	Grimms	Grimm	PROPN	Number=Plur	31 tales	nmod:poss
30	'	's	PART	_	29 Grimms	case
31	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 that	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 stories	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 stories	cc
34	even	even	ADV	_	38 stories	advmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 stories	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 stories	det
37	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 stories	amod
38	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 tales	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stick	present	the rhythmical phrases		phrases's memories	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in memory=Destination
2	remember	can	phrases = phrase	the exact phraseology of the English tales		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent phraseology=Theme
3	find	present	I	that		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic
4	tell		the Grimms			nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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