More English Fairy Tales, LXXV. Tamlane, sentence 6
Child gives no less than nine versions in his masterly edition, _l.c.
Who acts: Child · What happens: give · To what, where: nine versions, masterly edition
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), 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 gives | nsubj |
| 2 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | ADV | _ | 4 less | advmod |
| 4 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 6 nine | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 4 less | fixed |
| 6 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 versions | nummod |
| 7 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gives | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 edition | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 edition | nmod:poss |
| 10 | masterly | masterly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 edition | amod |
| 11 | edition | edition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 versions | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 l.c | punct |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 l.c | punct |
| 14 | l.c | l.c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 edition | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Child | nine versions | Child's masterly edition and l.c | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=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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