More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 33
But even the reader innocent of folk-lore can see that, holding these views, I do not attribute much anthropological value to tales whose origin is probably foreign, and am certainly not likely to make a hard-and-fast division between tales of the North Countrie and those told across the Border.
Who acts: reader, I, origin, North Countrie · What happens: see, hold, not attribute, be, not be, make · To what, where: that, views, much anthropological value, hard fast division, Border · 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 (reader, I, origin, North Countrie), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 see | cc |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 reader | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 reader | det |
| 4 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | nsubj |
| 5 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reader | amod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 lore | case |
| 7 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lore | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 folk | punct |
| 9 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 innocent | obl |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 holding | punct |
| 14 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 see | advcl |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 views | det |
| 16 | views | view | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 holding | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 attribute | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 attribute | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 attribute | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 attribute | advmod |
| 21 | attribute | attribute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 see | conj |
| 22 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 value | amod |
| 23 | anthropological | anthropological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 value | amod |
| 24 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 attribute | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 tales | case |
| 26 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 attribute | obl |
| 27 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 28 origin | nmod:poss |
| 28 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 foreign | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 foreign | cop |
| 30 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 31 foreign | advmod |
| 31 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tales | acl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 likely | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 likely | cc |
| 34 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 likely | cop |
| 35 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 37 likely | advmod |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 likely | advmod |
| 37 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 see | parataxis |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 make | mark |
| 39 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 likely | xcomp |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 division | det |
| 41 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 division | amod |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 division | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 division | cc |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 and | punct |
| 45 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 division | amod |
| 46 | division | division | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 make | obj |
| 47 | between | between | ADP | _ | 48 tales | case |
| 48 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 division | nmod |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 Countrie | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 Countrie | det |
| 51 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 Countrie | compound |
| 52 | Countrie | Countrie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 tales | nmod |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 those | cc |
| 54 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 52 Countrie | conj |
| 55 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 54 those | acl |
| 56 | across | across | ADP | _ | 58 Border | case |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 58 Border | det |
| 58 | Border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 told | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | can | the reader | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | the reader not said here | this views | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not attribute | present · do-support | I | much anthropological value | to tales | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | present | origin | foreign, probably property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not is | present | certainly, likely property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | make | to-infinitive | a hard fast division | between tales of the North Countrie | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset division=Product | ||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | participle | the Border | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | tell | the North Countrie | 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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