More English Fairy Tales, LXVIII. the Children in the Wood, sentence 3
The ballad form of the story has become such a nursery classic that I had not the heart to "prose" it.
Who acts: ballad form, I · What happens: become, have, form · To what, where: nursery classic, story
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVIII. the Children in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ballad form, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 form | det |
| 2 | ballad | ballad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 form | compound |
| 3 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 become | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 story | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 form | nmod |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 become | aux |
| 8 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 classic | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 classic | det |
| 11 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 classic | compound |
| 12 | classic | classic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 become | xcomp |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 had | obj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 classic | acl:relcl |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 heart | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 heart | det |
| 18 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 prose | mark |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 prose | punct |
| 21 | prose | prose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | xcomp |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 prose | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present · perfect | the ballad form of the story | such nursery classic | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | I | such nursery classic | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | form | the story | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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