More English Fairy Tales, XLIX. Yallery Brown, sentence 9
_--One might almost suspect Mrs. Balfour of being the victim of a piece of invention on the part of her autobiographical informant.
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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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Balfour | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 Balfour | punct |
| 3 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 Balfour | nsubj |
| 4 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 Balfour | aux |
| 5 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 6 suspect | advmod |
| 6 | suspect | suspect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Balfour | amod |
| 7 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Balfour | compound |
| 8 | Balfour | Balfour | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 victim | case |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 victim | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 victim | det |
| 12 | victim | victim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Balfour | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 piece | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 piece | det |
| 15 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 victim | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 invention | case |
| 17 | invention | invention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 piece | nmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 part | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 part | det |
| 20 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 invention | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 informant | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 informant | nmod:poss |
| 23 | autobiographical | autobiographical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 informant | amod |
| 24 | informant | informant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 part | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Balfour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | of the victim; of a piece of invention on the part of Balfour's autobiographical informant | tree rules |
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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