More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 73

The possibility of the introduction of an archaic formula which had become a convention of folk-telling cannot be left out of account.

Who acts: archaic formula · What happens: become, not leave out, introduce · To what, where: convention, possibility, account, archaic formula

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 (archaic formula), 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	2 possibility	det
2	possibility	possibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 left	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 introduction	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 introduction	det
5	introduction	introduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 possibility	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 formula	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 formula	det
8	archaic	archaic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 formula	amod
9	formula	formula	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 introduction	nmod
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 become	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 become	aux
12	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 formula	acl:relcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 convention	det
14	convention	convention	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 become	xcomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 telling	case
16	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 telling	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 folk	punct
18	telling	telling	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 convention	nmod
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 left	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 left	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 left	aux:pass
22	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
23	out	out	ADP	_	25 account	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 account	case
25	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 left	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	become	past · perfect	a archaic formula	a convention of folk telling		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	not leave out	can · passive		the possibility of the introduction of a archaic formula	account	tree rules
3	introduce			a archaic formula		nom introduction «act transitive»: 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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