More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 9

I take this occasion to soften their ire, or perhaps give them further cause for reviling.

Who acts: I · What happens: take, soften, give, cause, revile · To what, where: occasion, ire, critics

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), 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	2 take	nsubj
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 occasion	det
4	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 soften	mark
6	soften	soften	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 take	advcl
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ire	nmod:poss
8	ire	ire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soften	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 give	cc
11	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	12 give	advmod
12	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 take	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 give	iobj
14	further	further	ADV	_	15 cause	advmod
15	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 give	advcl
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 reviling	mark
17	reviling	revile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 cause	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	present	I	this occasion			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent occasion=Theme
2	soften	to-infinitive	I not said here	critics's ire			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ire=Patient
3	give	infinitive	I not said here		critics = critic	perhaps property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	cause	present	I not said here			further property	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
5	revile	gerund	I not said here				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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