More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 47
Among these, the tales reported by Mrs. Balfour, with a thorough knowledge of the peasants' mind and mode of speech, are a veritable acquisition.
Who acts: peasants · What happens: report, be, mind · To what, where: tales, veritable acquisition
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 (peasants), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 5 tales | case |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 tales | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tales | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tales | det |
| 5 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 acquisition | obl |
| 6 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tales | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Mrs. | case |
| 8 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 reported | obl |
| 9 | Balfour | Balfour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mrs. | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knowledge | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 knowledge | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 knowledge | det |
| 13 | thorough | thorough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 knowledge | amod |
| 14 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Mrs. | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mind | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 peasants | det |
| 17 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 mind | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 17 peasants | case |
| 19 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knowledge | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 mode | cc |
| 21 | mode | mode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mind | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 speech | case |
| 23 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mode | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tales | punct |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 acquisition | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 acquisition | det |
| 27 | veritable | veritable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 acquisition | amod |
| 28 | acquisition | acquisition | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 acquisition | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | participle | the tales not said here | by Mrs. | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a veritable acquisition | among the tales | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mind | the peasants | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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