More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 3
It might naturally have been thought that my former volume (_English Fairy Tales_) had almost exhausted the scanty remains of the traditional folk-tales of England.
Who acts: England · What happens: think, exhaust, tell · To what, where: volume, former volume · 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 (England), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 thought | aux |
| 3 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 6 thought | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thought | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 thought | aux:pass |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 exhausted | mark |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 volume | nmod:poss |
| 9 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 volume | amod |
| 10 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 exhausted | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 Tales | punct |
| 12 | _ | _ | ADP | _ | 15 Tales | case |
| 13 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Tales | compound |
| 14 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Tales | compound |
| 15 | Tales | Tale | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 volume | appos |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 Tales | punct |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 Tales | punct |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 exhausted | aux |
| 19 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 20 exhausted | advmod |
| 20 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 thought | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 remains | det |
| 22 | scanty | scanty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 remains | compound |
| 23 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 20 exhausted | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 tales | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 tales | det |
| 26 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tales | amod |
| 27 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tales | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 folk | punct |
| 29 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 remains | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 England | case |
| 31 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 tales | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | might · perfect · passive | volume | naturally property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | exhaust | past · perfect · passive | my former volume | almost property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer remains=Result | ||||
| 3 | tell | England | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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