More English Fairy Tales, LXX. a Pottle O' Brains, sentence 8
The Noodle family is strongly represented in English folk-tales, which would seem to confirm Carlyle's celebrated statistical remark.
Who acts: English folk tales, Carlyle · What happens: represent, seem, confirm, celebrate, remark · To what, where: Noodle family, celebrated statistical remark
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXX. a Pottle O' Brains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (English folk tales, Carlyle), 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 family | det |
| 2 | Noodle | Noodle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 family | compound |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 represented | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 represented | aux:pass |
| 5 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 6 represented | advmod |
| 6 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 tales | case |
| 8 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tales | amod |
| 9 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tales | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 folk | punct |
| 11 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 represented | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seem | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 seem | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 seem | aux |
| 15 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tales | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 confirm | mark |
| 17 | confirm | confirm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seem | xcomp |
| 18 | Carlyle | Carlyle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 remark | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Carlyle | case |
| 20 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 remark | amod |
| 21 | statistical | statistical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 remark | amod |
| 22 | remark | remark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 confirm | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 represented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | present · passive | the Noodle family | in English folk tales; strongly property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme in tale=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | seem | would | English folk tales | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | confirm | to-infinitive | English folk tales not said here | Carlyle's celebrated statistical remark | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot remark=Topic | ||||
| 4 | celebrate | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | remark | Carlyle | nom remark «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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