More English Fairy Tales, LVIII. Johnny Gloke, sentence 10

_--How _The Valiant Tailor_ got to Aberdeen one cannot tell, though the resemblance is close enough to suggest a direct "lifting" from some English version of Grimm's _Goblins_.

Who acts: Valiant Tailor _, resemblance · What happens: get, not tell, be, suggest · To what, where: Aberdeen one, English version, direct lifting · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LVIII. Johnny Gloke. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Valiant Tailor _, resemblance), 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	_	9 got	punct
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
3	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 got	advmod
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 How	punct
5	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 _	det
6	Valiant	valiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 _	amod
7	Tailor	Tailor	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 _	compound
8	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 one	case
11	Aberdeen	aberdeen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obl
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 tell	advmod
15	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 got	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 close	punct
17	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 close	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 resemblance	det
19	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 close	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 close	cop
21	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tell	ccomp
22	enough	enough	ADV	_	21 close	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 suggest	mark
24	suggest	suggest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 close	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 lifting	det
26	direct	direct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 lifting	amod
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 lifting	punct
28	lifting	lifting	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 suggest	obj
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
30	from	from	ADP	_	33 version	case
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 version	det
32	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 version	amod
33	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 _	case
35	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 _	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 Grimm	case
37	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 version	nmod
38	Goblins	Goblins	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 _	flat
39	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	the Valiant Tailor _					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	not tell speech: assert	can			Aberdeen one	some English version of Grimm's _		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient
3	is	present	the resemblance				close, enough property	tree rules
4	suggest speech: suggest	to-infinitive	the resemblance not said here	a direct lifting				vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lifting=Topic

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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