More English Fairy Tales, LII. Tom Hickathrift, sentence 21
Under any circumstances no English child's library of folk-tales can be considered complete that does not present a version of Mr. Hickathrift's exploits.
Who acts: that · What happens: consider, not present · To what, where: library, circumstances, version
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 (that), 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 circumstances | case |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 circumstances | det |
| 3 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 considered | obl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 child | det |
| 5 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 child | amod |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 library | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 child | case |
| 8 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 considered | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tales | case |
| 10 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tales | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 folk | punct |
| 12 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 library | nmod |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 considered | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 considered | aux:pass |
| 15 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | complete | complete | SCONJ | _ | 20 present | mark |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 present | nsubj |
| 18 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 present | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 present | advmod |
| 20 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 considered | ccomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 version | det |
| 22 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 present | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 exploits | case |
| 24 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Hickathrift | nmod:desc |
| 25 | Hickathrift | Hickathrift | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 exploits | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Hickathrift | case |
| 27 | exploits | exploit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 version | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | can · passive | no English child's library of folk tales | any circumstances | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not present | present · do-support | that | a version of Hickathrift Mr.'s exploits | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=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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