More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 17
And--conclusive argument--wilt thou, oh orthodox brother folk-lorist, still continue to use Grimm and Asbjörnsen?
What happens: continue, use · To what, where: Grimm
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lorist | cc |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 argument | punct |
| 3 | conclusive | conclusive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 argument | amod |
| 4 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lorist | nsubj |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 thou | punct |
| 6 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 7 thou | aux |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 argument | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thou | punct |
| 9 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 14 lorist | discourse |
| 10 | orthodox | orthodox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brother | compound |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lorist | compound |
| 12 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lorist | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 folk | punct |
| 14 | lorist | lorist | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 continue | punct |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 continue | advmod |
| 17 | continue | continue | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 lorist | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 use | mark |
| 19 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 continue | xcomp |
| 20 | Grimm | Grimm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 use | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Asbjörnsen | cc |
| 22 | Asbjörnsen | Asbjörnsen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Grimm | conj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 lorist | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | infinitive | still | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | use | to-infinitive | Grimm and Asbjörnsen | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grimm=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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