More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 46
But since the publication of _English Fairy Tales_, I have been specially fortunate in obtaining access to tales entirely new and exceptionally well told, which have been either published during the past three years or have been kindly placed at my disposal by folk-lore friends.
Who acts: I, lore friends · What happens: be, obtain, tell, publish, place · To what, where: access, tales, disposal, English Fairy · 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 (I, lore friends), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 fortunate | cc |
| 2 | since | since | ADP | _ | 4 publication | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 publication | det |
| 4 | publication | publication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fortunate | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Fairy | case |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 of | punct |
| 7 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Fairy | compound |
| 8 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 publication | nmod |
| 9 | Tales | Tale | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 Fairy | nmod |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Tales | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 publication | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 fortunate | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 fortunate | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 fortunate | cop |
| 15 | specially | specially | ADV | _ | 16 fortunate | advmod |
| 16 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 18 obtaining | mark |
| 18 | obtaining | obtain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 fortunate | advcl |
| 19 | access | access | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 obtaining | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 tales | case |
| 21 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 obtaining | obl |
| 22 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 23 new | advmod |
| 23 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tales | amod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 told | cc |
| 25 | exceptionally | exceptionally | ADV | _ | 27 told | advmod |
| 26 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 told | advmod |
| 27 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 new | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 published | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 published | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 published | aux |
| 31 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 published | aux:pass |
| 32 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 33 published | cc:preconj |
| 33 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 tales | acl |
| 34 | during | during | ADP | _ | 38 years | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 years | det |
| 36 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 years | amod |
| 37 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 years | nummod |
| 38 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 published | obl |
| 39 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 43 placed | cc |
| 40 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 placed | aux |
| 41 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 43 placed | aux:pass |
| 42 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 43 placed | advmod |
| 43 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 fortunate | conj |
| 44 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 disposal | case |
| 45 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 disposal | nmod:poss |
| 46 | disposal | disposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 placed | obl |
| 47 | by | by | ADP | _ | 51 friends | case |
| 48 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 lore | compound |
| 49 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 folk | punct |
| 50 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 friends | compound |
| 51 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 placed | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 fortunate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | I | since the publication of English Fairy Tales | fortunate, specially property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | obtain | gerund | I not said here | access | to tales | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset access=Theme | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | participle | I not said here | exceptionally, well property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | publish | present · perfect · passive | tales | year | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 5 | place | present · perfect · passive | lore friends | my disposal | kindly property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at disposal=Destination | |||
| 6 | publish | English Fairy Tales | nom publication «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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