More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 14
But even on the lofty heights of folk-lore science I am not entirely defenceless.
Who acts: I · What happens: not be
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 heights | cc |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 heights | advmod |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 heights | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heights | det |
| 5 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 heights | amod |
| 6 | heights | height | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 science | case |
| 8 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 science | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 folk | punct |
| 10 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 science | compound |
| 11 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 defenceless | obl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 defenceless | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 defenceless | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 defenceless | advmod |
| 15 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 16 defenceless | advmod |
| 16 | defenceless | defenceless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 heights | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heights | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | I | of folk lore science; defenceless, entirely property | tree rules |
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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