More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 25

A tale told in Durham or Cumberland in a dialect which only Dr. Murray could distinguish from Lowland Scotch, would on all hands be allowed to be "English."

Who acts: Murray · What happens: tell, distinguish, allow, be · To what, where: tale, dialect, hands, English · 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 (Murray), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tale	det
2	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 allowed	nsubj:pass
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tale	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Durham	case
5	Durham	Durham	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl:agent
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 Cumberland	cc
7	Cumberland	Cumberland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Durham	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 dialect	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dialect	det
10	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 distinguish	obj
12	only	only	ADV	_	14 Murray	advmod
13	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Murray	nmod:desc
14	Murray	Murray	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 distinguish	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 distinguish	aux
16	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 dialect	acl:relcl
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 Lowland	case
18	Lowland	Lowland	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 distinguish	obl
19	Scotch	Scotch	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Lowland	flat
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 tale	punct
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 allowed	aux
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 hands	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 hands	det
24	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 allowed	obl
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 allowed	aux:pass
26	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
27	to	to	PART	_	30 English	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 English	cop
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 English	punct
30	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 allowed	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 allowed	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 allowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	participle		a tale not said here	a dialect		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	distinguish	could	Murray Dr.	a dialect		from Lowland	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent which=Theme from lowland=Co-Theme
3	allow	would · passive		a tale	all hands		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
4	is a in a quote	to-infinitive		English			tree rules

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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