More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 7
I do not know of more than half-a-dozen "outsiders" that deserve to rank with those included in my two volumes which, for the present, at any rate, must serve as the best substitute that can be offered for an English Grimm.
Who acts: I, outsiders · What happens: not know, deserve, rank, include, serve, offer · To what, where: two volumes, best substitute
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, outsiders), 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 | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 dozen | case |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 12 dozen | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 more | fixed |
| 8 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 12 dozen | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 dozen | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 dozen | det |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 a | punct |
| 12 | dozen | dozen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | obl |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 outsiders | punct |
| 14 | outsiders | outsider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dozen | conj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 outsiders | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 deserve | nsubj |
| 17 | deserve | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 outsiders | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 rank | mark |
| 19 | rank | rank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 deserve | xcomp |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 those | case |
| 21 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 rank | obl |
| 22 | included | include | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 those | acl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 volumes | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 volumes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 volumes | nummod |
| 26 | volumes | volume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rank | obl |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 present | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 present | punct |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 present | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 present | det |
| 31 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 volumes | acl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 rate | punct |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 rate | case |
| 34 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 rate | det |
| 35 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rank | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 serve | punct |
| 37 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 serve | aux |
| 38 | serve | serve | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | parataxis |
| 39 | as | as | ADP | _ | 42 substitute | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 substitute | det |
| 41 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 42 substitute | amod |
| 42 | substitute | substitute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 serve | obl |
| 43 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 offered | aux |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 offered | aux:pass |
| 46 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 substitute | acl:relcl |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 50 Grimm | case |
| 48 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 Grimm | det |
| 49 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 Grimm | compound |
| 50 | Grimm | Grimm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 offered | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | I | of a dozen and outsiders | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of dozen=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | deserve | present | outsiders | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rank | to-infinitive | outsiders not said here | my two volumes | with those; at any rate | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | include | participle | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | serve | must | as the best substitute | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as substitute=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | offer | can · passive | the best substitute | for a English Grimm goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme for grimm=Goal |
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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