More English Fairy Tales, LXXIII. Rushen Coatie, sentence 7
We should be able to trace this re-introduction by the variation in titles.
Who acts: We · What happens: be, trace · To what, where: re-introduction, titles
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 able | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 able | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 able | cop |
| 4 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 trace | mark |
| 6 | trace | trace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 able | xcomp |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 re-introduction | det |
| 8 | re-introduction | re-introduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trace | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 variation | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 variation | det |
| 11 | variation | variation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trace | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 titles | case |
| 13 | titles | title | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 trace | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should | We | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trace | to-infinitive | We not said here | this re-introduction | titles | by the variation | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent re-introduction=Theme in title=Destination |
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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