More English Fairy Tales, LII. Tom Hickathrift, sentence 10

Mr. Gomme, however, adds that the cartwheel "plays a not unimportant part in English folk-lore as a representative of old runic faith" (Villon Soc. edition, p. xv.).

Who acts: Gomme, cartwheel · What happens: add, play · To what, where: unimportant part, English folk lore · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LII. Tom Hickathrift. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gomme, cartwheel), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Gomme	nmod:desc
2	Gomme	Gomme	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 adds	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Gomme	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 adds	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 plays	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cartwheel	det
9	cartwheel	cartwheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 plays	nsubj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 cartwheel	punct
11	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 adds	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 part	det
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 unimportant	advmod
14	unimportant	unimportant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 part	amod
15	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 plays	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	20 lore	case
17	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 lore	compound
18	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lore	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 folk	punct
20	lore	lore	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 part	nmod
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 representative	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 representative	det
23	representative	representative	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 plays	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 faith	case
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 faith	amod
26	runic	runic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 faith	amod
27	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 representative	nmod
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 faith	punct
29	(	(	PUNCT	_	31 Soc	punct
30	Villon	Villon	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Soc	compound
31	Soc	Soc	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 faith	appos
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 Soc	punct
33	edition	edition	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Soc	appos
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 xv	punct
35	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 xv	compound
36	xv	xv	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Soc	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 Soc	punct
38	)	)	PUNCT	_	31 Soc	punct
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 adds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present	Gomme Mr.					however property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	play in a quote	present	the cartwheel	a unimportant part		English folk lore		as a representative of old runic faith	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme

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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