More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 6

I have taken English tales wherever I could find them, one from the United States, some from the Lowland Scotch, and a few have been adapted from ballads, while I have left a couple in their original metrical form.

Who acts: I, Tales · What happens: take, find, adapt, leave, form · To what, where: English tales, Tales, few, ballads, couple, original metrical form

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, Tales), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 taken	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 taken	aux
3	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tales	amod
5	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 taken	obj
6	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	9 find	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 find	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 find	aux
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 taken	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 find	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 taken	parataxis
13	from	from	ADP	_	16 States	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 States	det
15	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 States	amod
16	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Scotch	punct
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 Scotch	det
19	from	from	ADP	_	22 Scotch	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Scotch	det
21	Lowland	Lowland	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Scotch	compound
22	Scotch	Scotch	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 States	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 adapted	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 adapted	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 few	det
26	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 adapted	nsubj:pass
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 adapted	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 adapted	aux:pass
29	adapted	adapt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 taken	parataxis
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 ballads	case
31	ballads	ballad	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 adapted	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 left	punct
33	while	while	SCONJ	_	36 left	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 left	nsubj
35	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 left	aux
36	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 adapted	conj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 couple	det
38	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 left	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	43 form	case
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 form	nmod:poss
41	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 form	amod
42	metrical	metrical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 form	amod
43	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 left	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	present · perfect	I	English tales			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme
2	find	could	I	Tales = tale		wherever property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
3	adapt	present · perfect · passive		a few	ballads		vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	leave	present · perfect	I	a couple	Tales's original metrical form		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent couple=Theme in form=Location
5	form		Tales = tale				nom form «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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