More English Fairy Tales, LVII. the Wee Bannock, sentence 13
The subtle characterisation of the various occupations reaches a high level of artistic merit.
Who acts: subtle characterisation · What happens: reach, characterise · To what, where: high level, various occupations
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LVII. the Wee Bannock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (subtle characterisation), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg14241:2011): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 characterisation | det |
| 2 | subtle | subtle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 characterisation | amod |
| 3 | characterisation | characterisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reaches | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 occupations | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 occupations | det |
| 6 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 occupations | amod |
| 7 | occupations | occupation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 characterisation | nmod |
| 8 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 level | det |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 level | amod |
| 11 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reaches | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 merit | case |
| 13 | artistic | artistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 merit | amod |
| 14 | merit | merit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 level | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reaches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present | the subtle characterisation of the various occupations | a high level of artistic merit | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent level=Theme | ||||
| 2 | characterise | the various occupations | nom characterisation «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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