More English Fairy Tales, LXI. the Blinded Giant, sentence 11

Yet till lately the mill stood to prove if the narrator lied, and every circumstance of local particularity seemed to vouch for the autochthonous character of the myth.

Who acts: mill, narrator, circumstance · What happens: stand, prove, lie, seem, vouch

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXI. the Blinded Giant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mill, narrator, circumstance), 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	6 stood	cc
2	till	till	ADP	_	3 lately	case
3	lately	lately	ADV	_	6 stood	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mill	det
5	mill	mill	NOUN	_	6 stood	nsubj
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 prove	mark
8	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stood	xcomp
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 lied	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 narrator	det
11	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lied	nsubj
12	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 prove	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seemed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seemed	cc
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 circumstance	det
16	circumstance	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seemed	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 particularity	case
18	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 particularity	amod
19	particularity	particularity	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 circumstance	nmod
20	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stood	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 vouch	mark
22	vouch	vouch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 seemed	xcomp
23	for	for	ADP	_	26 character	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 character	det
25	autochthonous	autochthonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 character	amod
26	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 vouch	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 myth	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 myth	det
29	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 character	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the mill		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	prove	to-infinitive	the mill not said here		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	lie a condition, not said to happen	past	the narrator		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	seem	past	every circumstance of local particularity		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	vouch	to-infinitive	every circumstance of local particularity not said here	for the autochthonous character of the myth	tree rules

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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