More English Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs., sentence 2

Mr. Lang has honoured me with a rejoinder, which I regard as a palinode, in his Preface to Miss Roalfe Cox's volume of variants of _Cinderella_ (Folk-Lore Society, 1892).]

Who acts: I, Lang, Cinderella · What happens: honour, regard, preface, vary · To what, where: Lang, rejoinder

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Lang, Cinderella), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Lang	nmod:desc
2	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 honoured	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 honoured	aux
4	honoured	honour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 honoured	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 rejoinder	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rejoinder	det
8	rejoinder	rejoinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 honoured	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 regard	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 regard	obj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 regard	nsubj
12	regard	regard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 rejoinder	acl:relcl
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 palinode	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 palinode	det
15	palinode	palinode	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 regard	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Preface	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 Preface	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 Preface	nmod:poss
19	Preface	preface	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 regard	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 Miss	case
21	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Preface	nmod
22	Roalfe	Roalfe	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Miss	flat
23	Cox	Cox	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 volume	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 Cox	case
25	volume	volume	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Miss	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 variants	case
27	variants	variant	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 volume	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 Cinderella	case
29	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 of	punct
30	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 variants	nmod
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	19 Preface	punct
32	(	(	PUNCT	_	33 Folk	punct
33	Folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Preface	parataxis
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 Society	punct
35	Lore	Lore	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Society	compound
36	Society	Society	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Folk	appos
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 1892	punct
38	1892	1892	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	36 Society	list
39	)	)	PUNCT	_	33 Folk	punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 honoured	punct
41	]	]	PUNCT	_	4 honoured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	honour	present · perfect · passive		Lang Mr.	with a rejoinder	tree rules
2	regard	present	I	a rejoinder	as a palinode	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent which=Theme as palinode=Value
3	preface		Lang		to Miss	nom preface «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl
4	vary		Cinderella			nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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