More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 61
I have mainly been on the search for signs of diffusion rather than of "survivals" of antiquarian interest, though I trust it will be found I have not neglected these.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, be, trust, find, not neglect, sign · To what, where: search, these, diffusion, antiquarian interest · 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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 7 search | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 search | cop |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 search | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 search | det |
| 7 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 signs | case |
| 9 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 search | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 diffusion | case |
| 11 | diffusion | diffusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 signs | nmod |
| 12 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 16 survivals | cc |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 rather | fixed |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 survivals | case |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 survivals | punct |
| 16 | survivals | survival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 signs | conj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 survivals | punct |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 interest | case |
| 19 | antiquarian | antiquarian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 interest | amod |
| 20 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 survivals | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 trust | punct |
| 22 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 24 trust | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 trust | nsubj |
| 24 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 found | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 found | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 found | aux:pass |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 trust | ccomp |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 neglected | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 neglected | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 neglected | advmod |
| 32 | neglected | neglect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 found | ccomp |
| 33 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 32 neglected | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | participle | the search | for signs of diffusion rather survivals of antiquarian interest; mainly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | trust | present | I | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | future · passive | search | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not neglect | present · perfect | I | these | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sign | diffusion | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | survive in a quote | antiquarian interest | nom survival «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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