More English Fairy Tales, LXII. Scrapefoot, sentence 10
In introducing the story in his _Doctor_, the poet laureate did not claim to do more than repeat a popular tale.
Who acts: poet · What happens: introduce, laureate, not claim, do, repeat · To what, where: story, _, more, popular tale
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXII. Scrapefoot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poet), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 2 introducing | mark |
| 2 | introducing | introduce | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 claim | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 introducing | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 _ | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 _ | nmod:poss |
| 7 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 story | nmod |
| 8 | Doctor | Doctor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 _ | flat |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 introducing | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 introducing | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 poet | det |
| 12 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 claim | nsubj |
| 13 | laureate | laureate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 poet | acl |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 claim | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 claim | advmod |
| 16 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 claim | xcomp |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 do | obj |
| 20 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 21 repeat | mark |
| 21 | repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 more | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tale | det |
| 23 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tale | amod |
| 24 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 repeat | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 claim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | introduce | gerund | the poet not said here | the story | Southey's _ | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient | |||
| 2 | laureate | infinitive | the poet not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not claim speech: other | past · do-support | the poet | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | the poet not said here | more | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | repeat | infinitive | the poet not said here | a popular tale | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Eventuality |
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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