More English Fairy Tales, LXXV. Tamlane, sentence 11

Child remarks that dipping into water or milk is necessary before transformation can take place, and gives examples, _l.c.

Who acts: Child remarks · What happens: dip, be, take, give · To what, where: water, place, examples

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXV. Tamlane. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Child remarks), 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	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remarks	compound
2	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 take	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 necessary	nsubj
4	dipping	dip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 necessary	csubj
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dipping	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 milk	cc
8	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 water	conj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 necessary	cop
10	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 remarks	acl:relcl
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 transformation	case
12	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 necessary	obl
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 take	aux
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gives	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gives	cc
18	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 take	advcl
19	examples	example	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 gives	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 l.c	punct
21	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 l.c	punct
22	l.c	l.c	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gives	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dip	gerund			water or milk			vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Location
2	is	present	Child remarks			before transformation	necessary property	tree rules
3	take	can	Child remarks	place				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
4	give	present	Child remarks not said here	examples				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent example=Recipient l.c=Theme

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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