More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 51
I have attempted in my version to reconstruct the "English" Cinderella according to these formulæ.
Who acts: I · What happens: attempt, reconstruct, accord · To what, where: version, English Cinderella
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 attempted | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 attempted | aux |
| 3 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 version | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 version | nmod:poss |
| 6 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 attempted | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 reconstruct | mark |
| 8 | reconstruct | reconstruct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 attempted | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Cinderella | det |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Cinderella | punct |
| 11 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Cinderella | compound |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Cinderella | punct |
| 13 | Cinderella | cinderella | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reconstruct | obj |
| 14 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 formulæ | case |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 according | fixed |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 formulæ | det |
| 17 | formulæ | formulæ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Cinderella | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 attempted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt | present · perfect | I | my version | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | reconstruct | to-infinitive | I not said here | the English Cinderella | accord this formulæ | tree rules | |||
| 3 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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