More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 45

That had necessarily to contain the old favourites _Jack the Giant Killer, Dick Whittington_, and the rest, which are often not so interesting or so well told as the less familiar ones buried in periodicals or folk-lore collections.

Who acts: rest · What happens: contain, not be, tell, bury · To what, where: That, familiar ones, periodicals · 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 (rest), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 contain	obl
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 contain	aux
3	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	_	5 contain	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 contain	mark
5	contain	contain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 favourites	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 favourites	amod
8	favourites	favourite	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 contain	obj
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 Jack	punct
10	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 favourites	appos
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Killer	det
12	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Killer	amod
13	Killer	Killer	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Jack	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Dick	punct
15	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Jack	conj
16	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Dick	flat
17	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 Jack	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rest	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 rest	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rest	det
21	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 contain	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 interesting	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 interesting	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 interesting	cop
25	often	often	ADV	_	28 interesting	advmod
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 interesting	advmod
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 interesting	advmod
28	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 rest	parataxis
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 told	cc
30	so	so	ADV	_	32 told	advmod
31	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 told	advmod
32	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 interesting	conj
33	as	as	ADP	_	37 ones	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ones	det
35	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 familiar	advmod
36	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 ones	amod
37	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 told	obl
38	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 ones	acl
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 periodicals	case
40	periodicals	periodical	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 buried	obl
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 collections	cc
42	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 lore	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 folk	punct
44	lore	lore	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 collections	compound
45	collections	collection	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 buried	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 contain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	contain	past		That		necessarily property	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot favourite=Theme
2	not is	present	the rest			interesting, often property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	participle	the rest not said here			as the familiar ones; well property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bury	participle		the familiar ones not said here	periodicals		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in periodical=Destination

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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