More English Fairy Tales, LXIX. the Hobyahs, sentence 5

_--But for the assurance of the tale itself that Hobyahs are no more, Mr. Batten's portraits of them would have convinced me that they were the bogles or spirits of the comma bacillus.

Who acts: Hobyahs, assurance, tale, Batten · What happens: not be, convince, be, assure, portray · To what, where: more, bogles, portraits

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXIX. the Hobyahs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hobyahs, assurance, tale, Batten), 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	_	6 assurance	punct
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 assurance	punct
3	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 assurance	cc
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 assurance	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 assurance	det
6	assurance	assurance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 tale	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tale	det
9	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 assurance	nmod
10	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	9 tale	nmod:unmarked
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 convinced	mark
12	Hobyahs	hobyah	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 more	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 more	cop
14	no	no	ADV	_	15 more	advmod
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 convinced	nsubj:pass
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 more	punct
17	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Batten	nmod:desc
18	Batten	Batten	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 portraits	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 Batten	case
20	portraits	portrait	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 convinced	nsubj:pass
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 portraits	nmod
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 convinced	aux
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 convinced	aux
25	convinced	convince	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 assurance	acl
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 convinced	obj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 bogles	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bogles	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 bogles	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bogles	det
31	bogles	bogle	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 convinced	ccomp
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 spirits	cc
33	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 bogles	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 bacillus	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 bacillus	det
36	comma	comma	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bacillus	compound
37	bacillus	bacillus	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 spirits	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 assurance	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Hobyahs		more property	tree rules
2	convince	would · perfect · passive	the assurance of the tale tale not said here	more		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer i=Result
3	is a	past	Hobyahs = hobyah	the bogles or spirits of the comma bacillus		tree rules
4	assure		the tale tale			nom assurance «cognition intransitive»: of=agent
5	portray		Batten Mr.	portraits = portrait		nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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