More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 54
They certainly have the quality of coming home to English children.
Who acts: phrases, quality · What happens: have, come · To what, where: quality
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 (phrases, quality), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 3 have | advmod |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 quality | det |
| 5 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 coming | mark |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 quality | acl |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 coming | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 children | case |
| 10 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 children | amod |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 coming | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | phrases = phrase | the quality | certainly property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quality=Patient | |||
| 2 | come | gerund | the quality not said here | to English children; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to child=Initial_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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