More English Fairy Tales, LVII. the Wee Bannock, sentence 3
I have attempted an impossibility, I fear, in trying to anglicise, but the fun of the original tempted me.
Who acts: I, fun · What happens: attempt, fear, try, anglicise, tempt · To what, where: impossibility, me
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 (I, fun), 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:pg14241:2006): 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 attempted | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 attempted | aux |
| 3 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 impossibility | det |
| 5 | impossibility | impossibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 attempted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fear | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 fear | nsubj |
| 8 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 attempted | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fear | punct |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 trying | mark |
| 11 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 attempted | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 anglicise | mark |
| 13 | anglicise | anglicise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 trying | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tempted | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 tempted | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fun | det |
| 17 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tempted | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 original | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 original | det |
| 20 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fun | nmod |
| 21 | tempted | tempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 attempted | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 tempted | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 attempted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt | present · perfect | I | a impossibility | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impossibility=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | fear | present | I | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | try | gerund | I not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | anglicise not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | tempt | past | the fun of the original | me | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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