More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 57
In the following Notes, I have continued my practice of giving (1) _Source_ where I obtained the various tales.
Who acts: I, practice, my · What happens: follow, continue, give, obtain, practice · To what, where: practice, following Notes, 1, various 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, practice, my), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Notes | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Notes | det |
| 3 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Notes | amod |
| 4 | Notes | Note | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 continued | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Notes | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 continued | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 continued | aux |
| 8 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 practice | nmod:poss |
| 10 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 continued | obj |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 giving | mark |
| 12 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 practice | acl |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 1 | punct |
| 14 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 giving | obl |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 1 | punct |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 Source | punct |
| 17 | Source | Source | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 continued | conj |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 obtained | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 obtained | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 obtained | nsubj |
| 21 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Source | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tales | det |
| 23 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tales | amod |
| 24 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 obtained | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | continue | present · perfect | I | my practice | the following Notes | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent practice=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | gerund | my practice not said here | 1 | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | obtain | past | I | the various tales | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme | ||||
| 5 | practice | my | nom practice «act transitive»: 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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