More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 35

I am inclined to follow the tradition of my old nurse, who was not bred at Girton and who scorned at times the rules of Lindley Murray and the diction of smart society.

Who acts: Lindley Murray · What happens: incline, follow, not breed, scorn, rule · To what, where: I, tradition, Girton

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 (Lindley Murray), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 inclined	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 inclined	aux:pass
3	inclined	incline	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 follow	mark
5	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 inclined	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tradition	det
7	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 follow	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 nurse	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 nurse	nmod:poss
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 nurse	amod
11	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tradition	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bred	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 bred	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bred	aux:pass
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 bred	advmod
16	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 tradition	acl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 Girton	case
18	Girton	Girton	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 bred	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 scorned	cc
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 scorned	nsubj
21	scorned	scorn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bred	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 times	case
23	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 scorned	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rules	det
25	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 times	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 Murray	case
27	Lindley	Lindley	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Murray	compound
28	Murray	Murray	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 rules	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 diction	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 diction	det
31	diction	diction	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Murray	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 society	case
33	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 society	amod
34	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 diction	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 inclined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	incline	present · passive		I			tree rules
2	follow	to-infinitive		the tradition of my old nurse			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tradition=Theme
3	not breed	past · passive		the tradition of my old nurse	Girton		tree rules
4	scorn	past				time	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	rule		Lindley Murray and the diction of smart society				nom rule «cognition 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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