More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 18
Yet, imperfect as the chap-book versions are, they yet retain not a few archaic touches.
Who acts: book versions, Stories · What happens: be, not retain · To what, where: few archaic touches
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXIII. Catskin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (book versions, Stories), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 3 imperfect | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 imperfect | punct |
| 3 | imperfect | imperfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 are | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 versions | det |
| 6 | chap | chap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 book | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 chap | punct |
| 8 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 versions | compound |
| 9 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 are | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 retain | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 are | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 retain | nsubj |
| 13 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 14 retain | advmod |
| 14 | retain | retain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 imperfect | parataxis |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 retain | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 touches | det |
| 17 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 touches | amod |
| 18 | archaic | archaic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 touches | amod |
| 19 | touches | touch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 retain | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 imperfect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | the book versions | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not retain | present | Stories = story | a few archaic touches | yet | 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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