More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 30
They therefore attribute more importance than I to the exact form in which it is found and restrict it to the locality of birth.
Who acts: Tales · What happens: therefore, find, restrict · To what, where: attribute more importance, importance, exact form, locality
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 (Tales), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 therefore | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | attribute | attribute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 importance | compound |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 importance | amod |
| 5 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 therefore | obj |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 I | case |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 therefore | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 form | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 form | det |
| 10 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 form | amod |
| 11 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 therefore | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 found | obl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 found | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | aux:pass |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 form | acl:relcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 restrict | cc |
| 18 | restrict | restrict | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 found | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 restrict | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 locality | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 locality | det |
| 22 | locality | locality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 restrict | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 birth | case |
| 24 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 locality | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 therefore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | therefore | past | Tales = tale | attribute more importance | than I; to the exact form | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | present · passive | importance | the exact form | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | restrict | infinitive | importance | to the locality of birth goal | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer it=Patient to locality=Goal |
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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