More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 39
These tales have been told, if not from time immemorial, at least for several generations, in a special form which includes dialect and "vulgar" words.
Who acts: special form · What happens: tell, include · To what, where: tales, dialect · 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 (special form), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 tales | det |
| 2 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 told | aux:pass |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 immemorial | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 immemorial | mark |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 time | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 immemorial | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | immemorial | immemorial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 told | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 least | punct |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 least | case |
| 14 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 immemorial | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 generations | case |
| 16 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 generations | amod |
| 17 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 least | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 form | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 form | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 form | det |
| 21 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 form | amod |
| 22 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | parataxis |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 includes | nsubj |
| 24 | includes | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 form | acl:relcl |
| 25 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 includes | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 words | cc |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 vulgar | punct |
| 28 | vulgar | vulgar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 words | amod |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 vulgar | punct |
| 30 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 dialect | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | this tales | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | include | present | a special form | dialect and vulgar words | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dialect=Theme |
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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