More English Fairy Tales, XLV. Hereafterthis, sentence 2
_--Sent me anonymously soon after the appearance of _English Fairy Tales_.
Who acts: _ · What happens: send · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLV. Hereafterthis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sent | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 3 | Sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 Sent | obj |
| 5 | anonymously | anonymously | ADV | _ | 6 soon | advmod |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 Sent | advmod |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 appearance | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 appearance | det |
| 9 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Sent | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Fairy | case |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 of | punct |
| 12 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Fairy | compound |
| 13 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appearance | nmod |
| 14 | Tales | Tale | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 Fairy | nmod |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 Tales | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | _ | me | after the appearance of English Fairy Tales | soon property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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