More English Fairy Tales, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham, sentence 2

_--_Diary of Abraham de la Pryme_ (Surtees Soc.) under date 10th November, 1699, but rewritten by Mr. Nutt, who has retained the few characteristic seventeenth century touches of Pryme's dull and colourless narration.

Who acts: Nutt, Pryme · What happens: rewrite, retain, touch, narrate · To what, where: Diary, few characteristic century touches, dull narration

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nutt, Pryme), 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	_	4 Diary	punct
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 Diary	punct
3	_	_	ADP	_	4 Diary	case
4	Diary	Diary	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Abraham	case
6	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Diary	conj
7	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	6 Abraham	flat:foreign
8	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	4 Diary	flat:foreign
9	Pryme	Pryme	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 la	flat
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 la	punct
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 Soc	punct
12	Surtees	Surtees	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Soc	compound
13	Soc	Soc	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Diary	appos
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 Soc	punct
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 Soc	punct
16	under	under	ADP	_	17 date	case
17	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Diary	nmod
18	10th	10th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	19 November	amod
19	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 date	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 1699	punct
21	1699	1699	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 Diary	list
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rewritten	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 rewritten	cc
24	rewritten	rewrite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 Diary	acl
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 Nutt	case
26	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Nutt	nmod:desc
27	Nutt	Nutt	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 rewritten	obl:agent
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 retained	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 retained	nsubj
30	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 retained	aux
31	retained	retain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 Nutt	acl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 touches	det
33	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 touches	amod
34	characteristic	characteristic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 touches	amod
35	seventeenth	seventeenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 century	compound
36	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 touches	compound
37	touches	touch	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 retained	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	44 narration	case
39	Pryme	Pryme	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 narration	nmod:poss
40	's	's	PART	_	39 Pryme	case
41	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 narration	amod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 colourless	cc
43	colourless	colourless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 dull	conj
44	narration	narration	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 touches	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Diary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	rewrite	participle		Diary under date and Abraham not said here	tree rules
2	retain	present · perfect	Nutt Mr.	the few characteristic century touches of Pryme's dull narration	tree rules
3	touch			Pryme's dull narration	nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient
4	narrate		Pryme		nom narration «communication transitive»: poss=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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