More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 2

This volume will come, I fancy, as a surprise both to my brother folk-lorists and to the public in general.

Who acts: volume, I · What happens: come, fancy · To what, where: general

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 (volume, 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 volume	det
2	volume	volume	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fancy	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 fancy	nsubj
7	fancy	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 surprise	punct
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 surprise	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 surprise	det
11	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fancy	obl
12	both	both	ADV	_	18 lorists	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	18 lorists	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 lorists	nmod:poss
15	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lorists	compound
16	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lorists	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 folk	punct
18	lorists	lorist	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fancy	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 public	cc
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 public	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 public	det
22	public	public	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lorists	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 general	case
24	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fancy	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	future	this volume						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fancy	present	I			general		as a surprise; to my brother folk lorists and the public	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as surprise=Attribute

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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