More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 24
Yet I appeal to him, why make a difference between tales told on different sides of the Border?
Who acts: I · What happens: appeal, make, tell · To what, where: Philistinism, difference, tales, different sides · 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 (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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 3 appeal | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 appeal | nsubj |
| 3 | appeal | appeal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 appeal | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
| 7 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 make | advmod |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 appeal | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 difference | det |
| 10 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 11 | between | between | ADP | _ | 12 tales | case |
| 12 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 difference | nmod |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 tales | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 sides | case |
| 15 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sides | amod |
| 16 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 told | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Border | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Border | det |
| 19 | Border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sides | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appeal | present | I | Philistinism | vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to he=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | I not said here | a difference | between tales | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difference=Product | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | participle | tales not said here | different sides of the Border | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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