Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 42
I have especially to thank Miss Frere, who kindly made an exception in my favour, and granted me the use of that fine story, "Punchkin," and that quaint myth, "How Sun, Moon, and Wind went out to Dinner."
Who acts: I, Miss, Sun, my · What happens: have, thank, make, grant, go out, favour · To what, where: Miss, exception, favour, use, me, Dinner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Miss, Sun, my), 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 | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 5 thank | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 thank | mark |
| 5 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | xcomp |
| 6 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 thank | obj |
| 7 | Frere | Frere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Miss | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 made | nsubj |
| 10 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 11 made | advmod |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Miss | acl:relcl |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 exception | det |
| 13 | exception | exception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 favour | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 favour | nmod:poss |
| 16 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 exception | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 granted | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 granted | cc |
| 19 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | parataxis |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 granted | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 use | det |
| 22 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 granted | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 story | case |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 story | det |
| 25 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 story | amod |
| 26 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 use | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 story | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 Punchkin | punct |
| 29 | Punchkin | Punchkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 story | appos |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Punchkin | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 Punchkin | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 myth | cc |
| 33 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 myth | det |
| 34 | quaint | quaint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 myth | amod |
| 35 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 use | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 went | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 went | punct |
| 38 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 45 went | advmod |
| 39 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 went | nsubj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Moon | punct |
| 41 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Sun | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 went | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 went | cc |
| 44 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 went | nsubj |
| 45 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 granted | conj |
| 46 | out | out | ADV | _ | 45 went | advmod |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 Dinner | case |
| 48 | Dinner | Dinner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 went | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | to-infinitive | I not said here | Miss | especially property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miss=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | past | Miss | a exception | my favour | kindly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exception=Product | ||
| 4 | grant | past | the use of that fine story and that quaint myth | me | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal use=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go out in a quote | past | Sun and Moon | Dinner | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | favour | my | nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | use | that fine story | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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