More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 13

My defence might be that I had a cause at heart as sacred as our science of folk-lore--the filling of our children's imaginations with bright trains of images.

Who acts: I, My, children · What happens: be, defend, imagine

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, My, children), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 defence	nmod:poss
2	defence	defence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 might	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	cop
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 might	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cause	det
9	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 heart	case
11	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cause	nmod
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 sacred	case
13	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cause	nmod
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 science	case
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 science	nmod:poss
16	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sacred	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 lore	case
18	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lore	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 folk	punct
20	lore	lore	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 science	nmod
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 filling	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 filling	det
23	filling	filling	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lore	appos
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 imaginations	case
25	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 children	nmod:poss
26	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 imaginations	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 children	case
28	imaginations	imagination	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 filling	nmod
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 trains	case
30	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 trains	amod
31	trains	train	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 imaginations	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 images	case
33	images	image	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 trains	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 might	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive	I	have property	tree rules
2	defend		My		nom defence «process transitive»: poss=agent
3	imagine		our children	with bright trains of images	nom imagination «cognition transitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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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