More English Fairy Tales, LXVII. a Son of Adam, sentence 2

_--From memory, by Mr. E. Sidney Hartland, as heard by him from his nurse in childhood.

What happens: hear · To what, where: memory, nurse

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVII. a Son of Adam. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 memory	punct
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 memory	punct
3	From	from	ADP	_	4 memory	case
4	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Sidney	punct
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 Sidney	case
7	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Sidney	nmod:desc
8	E.	E.	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Sidney	compound
9	Sidney	Sidney	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 memory	nmod
10	Hartland	Hartland	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Sidney	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 heard	mark
13	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 memory	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	obl
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 nurse	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 nurse	nmod:poss
18	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 childhood	case
20	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 memory	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	participle		memory by E. Sidney Mr. not said here		Sidney's nurse		by Sidney; in childhood	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from nurse=Source

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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