More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 26

The same tale told a few miles farther North, why should we refuse it the same qualification?

Who acts: same tale, we · What happens: tell, refuse · To what, where: few miles, difference · 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 (same tale, we), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tale	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tale	amod
3	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 miles	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 miles	amod
7	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	obj
8	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 North	advmod
9	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 miles	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 refuse	punct
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 refuse	advmod
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 refuse	aux
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 refuse	nsubj
14	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 refuse	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 qualification	det
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 qualification	amod
18	qualification	qualification	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 refuse	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the same tale	a few miles					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mile=Recipient
2	refuse	should	we	difference					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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