More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 44

In compiling the present collection I have drawn on the store of 140 tales with which I originally started; some of the best of these I reserved for this when making up the former one.

Who acts: I, best · What happens: compile, draw, start, reserve, make up · To what, where: present collection, store, former one

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 (I, best), 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	In	in	SCONJ	_	2 compiling	mark
2	compiling	compile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 drawn	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 collection	det
4	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 collection	amod
5	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 compiling	obj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 drawn	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 drawn	aux
8	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 store	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 store	det
11	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drawn	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 tales	case
13	140	140	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 tales	nummod
14	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 store	nmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 started	obl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 started	nsubj
18	originally	originally	ADV	_	19 started	advmod
19	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tales	acl:relcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 best	punct
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 best	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 best	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 best	det
24	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 reserved	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 these	case
26	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	24 best	nmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 reserved	nsubj
28	reserved	reserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 drawn	parataxis
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 this	case
30	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 reserved	obl
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 making	advmod
32	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 reserved	advcl
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 making	compound:prt
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 one	det
35	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 one	amod
36	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 making	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 drawn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	compile	gerund	I not said here	the present collection			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collection=Product
2	draw	present · perfect	I		the store of 140 tales		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on store=Destination
3	start	past	I			with 140 tales; originally property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with which=Subeventuality
4	reserve	past	the best of these			for this	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for this=Beneficiary
5	make up	gerund	the best of these not said here	the former one			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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