More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 37

Well, quite apart from memories of my old nurse, we have a certain number of tales actually taken down from the mouths of the people, and these are by no means in Authorised form; they even trench on the "vulgar"--_i.e._, the archaic.

Who acts: we, no, Tales, these · What happens: have, take down, mean, authorise, trench, be · To what, where: certain number, tales, mouths, vulgar

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 (we, no, Tales, these), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	13 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 apart	advmod
4	apart	apart	ADV	_	13 have	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 memories	case
6	memories	memory	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 apart	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 nurse	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 nurse	nmod:poss
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nurse	amod
10	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 memories	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 apart	punct
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 number	det
15	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 number	amod
16	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 tales	case
18	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 number	nmod
19	actually	actually	ADV	_	20 taken	advmod
20	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 tales	acl
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 taken	compound:prt
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 mouths	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mouths	det
24	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 taken	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 people	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 people	det
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 mouths	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 archaic	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 archaic	cc
30	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	53 archaic	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 archaic	cop
32	by	by	SCONJ	_	34 means	mark
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 means	nsubj
34	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 are	advcl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 form	case
36	Authorised	authorise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 form	amod
37	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 means	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 trench	punct
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 trench	nsubj
40	even	even	ADV	_	41 trench	advmod
41	trench	trench	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 archaic	parataxis
42	on	on	ADP	_	45 vulgar	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 vulgar	det
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 vulgar	punct
45	vulgar	vulgar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 trench	obl
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 vulgar	punct
47	--	--	PUNCT	_	53 archaic	punct
48	_	_	PUNCT	_	49 i.e.	punct
49	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	_	53 archaic	advmod
50	_	_	PUNCT	_	49 i.e.	punct
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 archaic	punct
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 archaic	det
53	archaic	archaic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 have	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	we	a certain number of tales		apart property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient
2	take down	participle		tales not said here	the mouths of the people	actually property	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	mean	present	no			in Authorised form	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in form=Attribute
4	authorise	participle					tree rules
5	trench	present	Tales = tale		the vulgar		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	is	present	these			archaic, i.e. property	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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