More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 23
Matter of fact is my reply, which will only confirm him, I fear, in his convictions.
Who acts: Matter, reply, I, fact, Philistinism · What happens: be, confirm, fear, matter, convict · To what, where: reply, Philistinism, convictions
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 (Matter, reply, I, fact), 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 | Matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reply | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 fact | case |
| 3 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Matter | nmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 reply | cop |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 reply | nmod:poss |
| 6 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 confirm | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 confirm | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 confirm | aux |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 confirm | advmod |
| 11 | confirm | confirm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 reply | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 confirm | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fear | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 fear | nsubj |
| 15 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 confirm | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 convictions | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 convictions | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 convictions | nmod:poss |
| 19 | convictions | conviction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fear | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Matter of fact | my reply | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | confirm | future | my reply | Philistinism | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fear | present | I | Philistinism's convictions | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer conviction=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | matter | fact | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | convict | Philistinism | nom conviction «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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