More English Fairy Tales, LII. Tom Hickathrift, sentence 12

_--Mr. Gomme, in his interesting Introduction, points out several indications of considerable antiquity for the legend, various expressions in the Pepysian Chap-book ("in the marsh of the Isle of Ely," "good ground"), indicating that it could trace back to the sixteenth century.

Who acts: Gomme, ground · What happens: point out, indicate, trace back, introduce · To what, where: several indications, considerable antiquity

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, ground), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 Gomme	punct
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 Gomme	punct
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Gomme	nmod:desc
4	Gomme	Gomme	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 points	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Introduction	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 Introduction	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 Introduction	nmod:poss
8	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Introduction	amod
9	Introduction	introduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Gomme	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Gomme	punct
11	points	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 points	compound:prt
13	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 indications	amod
14	indications	indication	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 points	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 antiquity	case
16	considerable	considerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 antiquity	amod
17	antiquity	antiquity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 indications	nmod
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 legend	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 legend	det
20	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 antiquity	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 expressions	punct
22	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 expressions	amod
23	expressions	expression	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 indications	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	29 book	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 book	det
26	Pepysian	pepysian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 book	amod
27	Chap	chap	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 book	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 Chap	punct
29	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 expressions	nmod
30	(	(	PUNCT	_	34 marsh	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 marsh	punct
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 marsh	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 marsh	det
34	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 expressions	appos
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 Isle	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Isle	det
37	Isle	Isle	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 marsh	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Ely	case
39	Ely	Ely	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Isle	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 ground	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 ground	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 ground	punct
43	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 ground	amod
44	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 marsh	appos
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 ground	punct
46	)	)	PUNCT	_	34 marsh	punct
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 indicating	punct
48	indicating	indicate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 points	conj
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 trace	mark
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 trace	nsubj
51	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 trace	aux
52	trace	trace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 indicating	advcl
53	back	back	ADV	_	52 trace	advmod
54	to	to	ADP	_	57 century	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 century	det
56	sixteenth	sixteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 century	amod
57	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 trace	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 points	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	point out	present	Gomme Mr.	several indications of considerable antiquity for the legend and various expressions in the Pepysian Chap book		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indication=Patient
2	indicate	gerund	Gomme Mr. not said here			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot
3	trace back	could	ground		century	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	introduce		Gomme			nom introduction «act transitive»: poss=agent
5	indicate			considerable antiquity for the legend		nom indication «communication transitive»: of=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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