More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 15
Do my friendly critics believe that even Campbell's materials had not been modified by the various narrators before they reached the great J.F.?
Who acts: you, friendly critics, various narrators, materials · What happens: do, believe, not modify, reach · To what, where: Campbell materials, great J.F · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, friendly critics, various narrators, materials), 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 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 critics | nmod:poss |
| 3 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 critics | amod |
| 4 | critics | critic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Do | parataxis |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 modified | mark |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 Campbell | advmod |
| 8 | Campbell | Campbell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 materials | compound |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Campbell | case |
| 10 | materials | material | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 modified | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 modified | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 modified | advmod |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 modified | aux:pass |
| 14 | modified | modify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 believe | ccomp |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 narrators | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 narrators | det |
| 17 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 narrators | amod |
| 18 | narrators | narrator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 modified | obl |
| 19 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 reached | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 reached | nsubj |
| 21 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 modified | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 J.F | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 J.F | amod |
| 24 | J.F | J.F | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 reached | obj |
| 25 | .? | .? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | believe | present | my friendly critics | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not modify | past · perfect · passive | the various narrators | Campbell materials | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | reach | past | materials = material | the great J.F | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent j.f=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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