Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 43
Miss Stokes has been equally gracious in granting me the use of characteristic specimens from her "Indian Fairy Tales."
Who acts: Miss · What happens: be, grant, use · To what, where: use, me, characteristic specimens
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 (Miss), 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 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gracious | nsubj |
| 2 | Stokes | Stokes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Miss | flat |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gracious | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 gracious | cop |
| 5 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 6 gracious | advmod |
| 6 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 granting | mark |
| 8 | granting | grant | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 gracious | advcl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 granting | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 use | det |
| 11 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 granting | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 specimens | case |
| 13 | characteristic | characteristic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 specimens | amod |
| 14 | specimens | specimen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 use | nmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 Tales | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 Tales | nmod:poss |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Fairy | punct |
| 18 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Fairy | amod |
| 19 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Tales | compound |
| 20 | Tales | Tale | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 specimens | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gracious | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 gracious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | Miss | equally, gracious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grant | gerund | Miss not said here | the use of characteristic specimens from Miss's Fairy Tales | me | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal use=Theme | |||
| 3 | use | characteristic specimens from Miss's Fairy Tales | 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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