More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 27
A tale in Henderson is English: why not a tale in Chambers, the majority of whose tales are to be found also south of the Tweed?
Who acts: tale, majority · What happens: be, find, tell · To what, where: English, tale · 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 (tale, majority), 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 | 6 English | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Henderson | case |
| 4 | Henderson | Henderson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tale | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 English | cop |
| 6 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 found | punct |
| 8 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 found | advmod |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 tale | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tale | det |
| 11 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 found | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Chambers | case |
| 13 | Chambers | chamber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tale | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 majority | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 majority | det |
| 16 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Chambers | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 tales | case |
| 18 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 19 tales | nmod:poss |
| 19 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 majority | nmod |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 found | aux:pass |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 found | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 found | aux:pass |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 English | acl:relcl |
| 24 | also | also | ADV | _ | 25 south | advmod |
| 25 | south | south | ADV | _ | 23 found | advmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Tweed | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Tweed | det |
| 28 | Tweed | Tweed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 found | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 English | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a tale in Henderson | English | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | present · passive | a tale in Chambers | of the Tweed; south property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | tell | the majority of the majority of tales's tales | nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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