More English Fairy Tales, XLIX. Yallery Brown, sentence 4
I have given him a name, and changed the narration into the oblique narration, and toned down the dialect.
Who acts: I · What happens: give, change, tone down · To what, where: name, labourer, narration, oblique narration, dialect
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIX. Yallery Brown. 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 | 3 given | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 name | det |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 changed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 changed | cc |
| 9 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 narration | det |
| 11 | narration | narration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 changed | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 narration | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 narration | det |
| 14 | oblique | oblique | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 narration | amod |
| 15 | narration | narration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 changed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 toned | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 toned | cc |
| 18 | toned | tone | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 changed | parataxis |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 toned | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dialect | det |
| 21 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 toned | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect | I | a name | labourer | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient name=Theme | |||
| 2 | change | past | I not said here | the narration | into the oblique narration result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent narration=Patient into narration=Result | |||
| 3 | tone down | participle | the dialect | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dialect=Patient |
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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