More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 36
I have been recommended to adopt a diction not too remote from that of the Authorised Version.
What happens: recommend, adopt, authorise · To what, where: I, diction
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: 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 | 4 recommended | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 recommended | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 recommended | aux:pass |
| 4 | recommended | recommend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 adopt | mark |
| 6 | adopt | adopt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 recommended | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 diction | det |
| 8 | diction | diction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 adopt | obj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 remote | advmod |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 remote | advmod |
| 11 | remote | remote | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 adopt | advcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 remote | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Version | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Version | det |
| 16 | Authorised | authorise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Version | amod |
| 17 | Version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 that | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 recommended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recommend | present · perfect · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | adopt | to-infinitive | a diction | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diction=Theme | |||||
| 3 | authorise | participle | tree rules |
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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