More English Fairy Tales, LXXIII. Rushen Coatie, sentence 6
If this book becomes generally used among English-speaking peoples, it may possibly re-introduce this and other tales among the folk.
Who acts: book · What happens: use, speak, re-introduce · To what, where: book, this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXIII. Rushen Coatie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (book), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 used | mark |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 book | det |
| 3 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 used | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 used | aux:pass |
| 5 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 6 used | advmod |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 re-introduce | advcl |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 11 peoples | case |
| 8 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 speaking | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 English | punct |
| 10 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 peoples | amod |
| 11 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 used | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 used | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 re-introduce | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 re-introduce | aux |
| 15 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 16 re-introduce | advmod |
| 16 | re-introduce | re-introduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 re-introduce | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tales | cc |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tales | amod |
| 20 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 re-introduce | conj |
| 21 | among | among | ADP | _ | 23 folk | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 folk | det |
| 23 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tales | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 re-introduce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | this book | among speaking peoples; generally property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | re-introduce | may | book | this | possibly property | tree rules |
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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