More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 7

I have rewritten most of them, and in doing so have adopted the traditional English style of folk-telling, with its "Wells" and "Lawkamercy" and archaic touches, which are known nowadays as vulgarisms.

Who acts: I, doing, traditional English style · What happens: rewrite, do, adopt, tell, know · To what, where: most, traditional English style, Wells, archaic touches · 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, doing, traditional English style), 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 rewritten	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rewritten	aux
3	rewritten	rewrite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 rewritten	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 most	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 adopted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 adopted	cc
9	in	in	SCONJ	_	10 doing	mark
10	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 adopted	csubj:pass
11	so	so	ADV	_	10 doing	advmod
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 adopted	aux
13	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 rewritten	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 style	det
15	traditional	traditional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 style	amod
16	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 style	amod
17	style	style	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 adopted	obj
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 telling	mark
19	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 telling	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 folk	punct
21	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 style	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Wells	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 Wells	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 Wells	nmod:poss
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 Wells	punct
26	Wells	Wells	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 telling	obj
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 Wells	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 Lawkamercy	cc
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 Lawkamercy	punct
30	Lawkamercy	Lawkamercy	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 telling	xcomp
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 Lawkamercy	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 touches	cc
33	archaic	archaic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 touches	amod
34	touches	touch	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 Lawkamercy	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 known	punct
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 known	nsubj:pass
37	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 known	aux:pass
38	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 touches	acl:relcl
39	nowadays	nowadays	ADV	_	38 known	advmod
40	as	as	ADP	_	41 vulgarisms	case
41	vulgarisms	vulgarism	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 known	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rewritten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	rewrite	present · perfect	I	most of Tales			tree rules
2	do	gerund					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	adopt	infinitive · perfect	doing	the traditional English style			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent style=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	gerund	the traditional English style not said here		style's Wells		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wells=Recipient
5	know	present · passive		archaic touches		as vulgarisms; nowadays property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as vulgarism=Attribute

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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