More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 38
Now there is just a touch of snobbery in objecting to these archaisms and calling them "vulgar."
What happens: be, object, call · To what, where: touch, archaisms · 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: 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 is | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 touch | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 touch | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 touch | det |
| 6 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 snobbery | case |
| 8 | snobbery | snobbery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touch | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 objecting | mark |
| 10 | objecting | object | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 touch | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 archaisms | case |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 archaisms | det |
| 13 | archaisms | archaism | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 objecting | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 calling | cc |
| 15 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 objecting | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 calling | obj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 vulgar | punct |
| 18 | vulgar | vulgar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 calling | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 touch | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a touch | of snobbery | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | object speech: other | gerund | this archaisms | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to archaism=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | call | gerund | archaisms = archaism | vulgar property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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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