More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 51

Other friends have been equally kind, especially Mr. Alfred Nutt, who has helped by adapting some of the book versions, and by reading the proofs, while to the Councils of the American and English Folk-Lore Societies I have again to repeat my thanks for permission to use materials which first appeared in their publications.

Who acts: Other friends, Alfred, I, American Lore Societies, materials, friends · What happens: be, help, adapt, read, have, repeat · To what, where: some, proofs, American Lore Societies, thanks, materials, publications

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 (Other friends, Alfred, I, American Lore Societies), 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	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 friends	amod
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kind	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 kind	cop
5	equally	equally	ADV	_	6 kind	advmod
6	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Alfred	punct
8	especially	especially	ADV	_	10 Alfred	advmod
9	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Alfred	nmod:desc
10	Alfred	Alfred	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kind	obl
11	Nutt	Nutt	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Alfred	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 helped	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 helped	nsubj
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 helped	aux
15	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 Alfred	acl:relcl
16	by	by	SCONJ	_	17 adapting	mark
17	adapting	adapt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 helped	advcl
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 adapting	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 versions	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 versions	det
21	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 versions	compound
22	versions	version	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 some	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 reading	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 reading	cc
25	by	by	SCONJ	_	26 reading	mark
26	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 kind	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 proofs	det
28	proofs	proof	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 reading	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 reading	punct
30	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 Councils	mark
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 Councils	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Councils	det
33	Councils	council	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 reading	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	42 Societies	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Societies	det
36	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 Societies	amod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 English	cc
38	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 American	conj
39	Folk	Folk	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Lore	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 Folk	punct
41	Lore	Lore	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Societies	compound
42	Societies	society	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 Councils	nmod
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 have	nsubj
44	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 Societies	acl:relcl
45	again	again	ADV	_	44 have	advmod
46	to	to	PART	_	47 repeat	mark
47	repeat	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 have	xcomp
48	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 thanks	nmod:poss
49	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 repeat	obj
50	for	for	ADP	_	51 permission	case
51	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 thanks	nmod
52	to	to	PART	_	53 use	mark
53	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 permission	acl
54	materials	material	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 use	obj
55	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 appeared	nsubj
56	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	57 appeared	advmod
57	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 materials	acl:relcl
58	in	in	ADP	_	60 publications	case
59	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 publications	nmod:poss
60	publications	publication	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 appeared	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	Other friends				Alfred Mr. obl; equally, kind property	tree rules
2	help	present · perfect	Alfred Mr.					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	adapt	gerund	Alfred Mr. not said here	some				vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
4	read	gerund	Other friends not said here	the proofs				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proof=Topic
5	have	present	I	the American Lore Societies not said here		again		tree rules
6	repeat	to-infinitive	the American Lore Societies not said here	my thanks			for permission	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Eventuality
7	use	to-infinitive	the American Lore Societies not said here	materials				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent material=Patient
8	appear	past	materials		friends's publications		first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in publication=Location
9	publish		friends = friend					nom publication «communication 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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