More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 60
(3) _Remarks_ where the tale seems to need them.
Who acts: tale · What happens: seem, need · To what, where: 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 (tale), 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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 2 3 | punct |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 3 | punct |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Remarks | punct |
| 5 | Remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 3 | conj |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 seems | punct |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 seems | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tale | det |
| 9 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seems | nsubj |
| 10 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Remarks | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 need | mark |
| 12 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 seems | xcomp |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 need | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 3 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | the tale | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | need | to-infinitive | the tale not said here | TALES = tale | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
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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