More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 34
As to how English folk-tales should be told authorities also differ.
Who acts: authorities · What happens: tell, differ · 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 (authorities), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 7 tales | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 English | advmod |
| 4 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tales | amod |
| 5 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tales | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 folk | punct |
| 7 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 told | obl |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 told | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 told | aux:pass |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 differ | nsubj |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 differ | advmod |
| 13 | differ | differ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 told | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | should · passive | as English folk tales | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | differ | present | authorities | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=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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