More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 75

Mr. Ralston, in the _Nineteenth Century_, 1879, was equally unenlightening with his sun-myths.

Who acts: Ralston · What happens: unenlighten

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 (Ralston), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Ralston	nmod:desc
2	Ralston	Ralston	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 unenlightening	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Century	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 Century	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Century	det
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 Century	punct
7	Nineteenth	nineteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Century	amod
8	Century	Century	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Ralston	conj
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Ralston	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 1879	punct
11	1879	1879	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 Ralston	list
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ralston	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 unenlightening	aux
14	equally	equally	ADV	_	15 unenlightening	advmod
15	unenlightening	unenlighten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
16	with	with	ADP	_	20 myths	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 myths	nmod:poss
18	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 myths	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 sun	punct
20	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 unenlightening	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 unenlightening	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unenlighten	past · progressive	Ralston Mr. and the Nineteenth Century					with Mr.'s sun myths; equally 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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