More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 28
The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales.
Who acts: truth, lore friends · What happens: be, differ · To what, where: lore friends
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 (truth, lore friends), 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 | 2 truth | det |
| 2 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 friends | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 friends | cop |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 friends | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friends | nmod:poss |
| 6 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lore | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 folk | punct |
| 8 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 friends | compound |
| 9 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 differ | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Saturday | cc |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Saturday | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 friends | conj |
| 13 | Reviewer | Reviewer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Saturday | flat |
| 14 | differ | differ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 differ | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 problem | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 problem | det |
| 19 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 problem | amod |
| 20 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 differ | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 origin | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 origin | det |
| 23 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 problem | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 tales | case |
| 25 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tales | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 folk | punct |
| 27 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 origin | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 differ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the truth | my lore friends and my Saturday | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | differ | present | my lore friends and my Saturday | with me; on the important problem of the origin of folk tales | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent on problem=Topic |
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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