More English Fairy Tales, LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham, sentence 3

I have selected the incidents and modernised the spelling; otherwise the droll remains as it was told in Elizabethan times.

Who acts: I · What happens: select, modernis, tell · To what, where: incidents, spelling · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 selected	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 selected	aux
3	selected	select	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 incidents	det
5	incidents	incident	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 selected	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 modernised	cc
7	modernised	modernis	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 selected	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spelling	det
9	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 modernised	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 remains	punct
11	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	14 remains	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 remains	det
13	droll	droll	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 remains	amod
14	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 selected	obl
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 told	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 told	aux:pass
18	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 selected	advcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 times	case
20	Elizabethan	Elizabethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 times	compound
21	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 told	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 selected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	select	present · perfect	I	the incidents		the droll remains obl	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incident=Theme
2	modernis	past	I not said here	the spelling			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past · passive		spelling	time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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