More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 41

Children are not likely to say "darter" for "daughter," or to ejaculate "Lawkamercyme" because they come across these forms in their folk-tales.

Who acts: Children · What happens: not be, say, ejaculate, come, tell · To what, where: darter, Lawkamercyme, forms · 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 (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	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 likely	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 likely	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 likely	xcomp
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 darter	punct
8	darter	darter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 darter	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 daughter	case
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 daughter	punct
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 likely	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 likely	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 ejaculate	cc
16	to	to	PART	_	17 ejaculate	mark
17	ejaculate	ejaculate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 likely	conj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Lawkamercyme	punct
19	Lawkamercyme	Lawkamercyme	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 ejaculate	obj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Lawkamercyme	punct
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 come	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
23	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 ejaculate	advcl
24	across	across	ADP	_	26 forms	case
25	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 forms	det
26	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 come	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	31 tales	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 tales	nmod:poss
29	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tales	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 folk	punct
31	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 forms	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 likely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Children			likely property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Children not said here	darter		for daughter	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent darter=Topic
3	ejaculate	to-infinitive	Children not said here	Lawkamercyme			tree rules
4	come	present	children = child		this forms in children's folk tales		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across form=Initial_Location
5	tell		children = child				nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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