More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 40
Why desert that form for one which the children cannot so easily follow with "thous" and "werts" and all the artificialities of pseudo-Elizabethan?
Who acts: that, children · What happens: form, not follow
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 (that, children), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 form | advmod |
| 2 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 form | compound |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 form | nsubj |
| 4 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 form | obl |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 follow | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 children | det |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 follow | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 follow | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 follow | advmod |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 easily | advmod |
| 13 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 14 follow | advmod |
| 14 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 one | acl:relcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 thous | case |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 thous | punct |
| 17 | thous | thou | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 follow | obl |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 thous | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 werts | cc |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 werts | punct |
| 21 | werts | wert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 thous | conj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 werts | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 artificialities | cc |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 artificialities | det:predet |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 artificialities | det |
| 26 | artificialities | artificiality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 thous | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Elizabethan | case |
| 28 | pseudo | pseudo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Elizabethan | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 pseudo | punct |
| 30 | Elizabethan | Elizabethan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 artificialities | nmod |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 form | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | present | that | for one | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not follow | can | the children | with thous and werts and all artificialities of pseudo Elizabethan; easily property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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