More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 11

I have actually at times introduced or deleted whole incidents, have given another turn to a tale, or finished off one that was incomplete, while I have had no scruple in prosing a ballad or softening down over-abundant dialect.

Who acts: I, scruple · What happens: have, introduce, delete, give, finish off, be · To what, where: times, whole incidents, turn, tale, one, scruple

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Ætat. XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, scruple), 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	actually	actually	ADV	_	2 have	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 times	case
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obl
6	introduced	introduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 times	acl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 deleted	cc
8	deleted	delete	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 introduced	conj
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 incidents	amod
10	incidents	incident	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 deleted	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 given	punct
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 given	aux
13	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 have	parataxis
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	15 turn	det
15	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 given	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 tale	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tale	det
18	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 given	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 finished	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 finished	cc
21	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 given	parataxis
22	off	off	ADP	_	21 finished	compound:prt
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 finished	obj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 incomplete	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 incomplete	cop
26	incomplete	incomplete	ADV	_	23 one	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
28	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 had	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 had	aux
31	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 finished	parataxis
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 scruple	det
33	scruple	scruple	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obj
34	in	in	SCONJ	_	35 prosing	mark
35	prosing	prose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 scruple	acl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 ballad	det
37	ballad	ballad	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 prosing	obj
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 softening	cc
39	softening	soften	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 prosing	conj
40	down	down	ADP	_	39 softening	compound:prt
41	over-abundant	over-abundant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 dialect	amod
42	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 softening	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	I			time	actually property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	introduce	participle		times not said here				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	delete	participle		whole incidents				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incident=Theme
4	give	present · perfect		another turn	a tale			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent turn=Theme to tale=Recipient
5	finish off	participle		one				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality one=Eventuality
6	is	past					incomplete property	tree rules
7	have	present · perfect	I	no scruple				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scruple=Patient
8	prose	gerund	no scruple not said here	a ballad				tree rules
9	soften down	gerund	no scruple not said here	over-abundant dialect				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dialect=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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