Indian Fairy Tales, XXVII. Sun, Moon, and Wind., sentence 5

_--Miss Frere observes that she has not altered the traditional mode of the Moon's conveyance of dinner to her mother the Star, though it must, she fears, impair the value of the story as a moral lesson in the eyes of all instructors of youth.

Who acts: _, Miss, Moon · What happens: observe, not alter, fear, impair, convey, value · To what, where: traditional mode, value, dinner, story

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVII. Sun, Moon, and Wind.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_, Miss, Moon), 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	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 observes	nsubj
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	1 _	punct
3	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 observes	nsubj
4	Frere	Frere	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Miss	flat
5	observes	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 altered	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 altered	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 altered	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 altered	advmod
10	altered	alter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 observes	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mode	det
12	traditional	traditional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mode	amod
13	mode	mode	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 altered	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 conveyance	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Moon	det
16	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 conveyance	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Moon	case
18	conveyance	conveyance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mode	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 dinner	case
20	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 conveyance	nmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 mother	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mother	nmod:poss
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 conveyance	nmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Star	det
25	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 mother	appos
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 must	punct
27	though	though	SCONJ	_	29 must	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 must	nsubj
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 altered	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fears	punct
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fears	nsubj
32	fears	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 observes	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 impair	punct
34	impair	impair	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 fears	xcomp
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 value	det
36	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 impair	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 story	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 story	det
39	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 value	nmod
40	as	as	ADP	_	43 lesson	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 lesson	det
42	moral	moral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 lesson	amod
43	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 impair	obl
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 eyes	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 eyes	det
46	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 lesson	nmod
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 instructors	case
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 instructors	det
49	instructors	instructor	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 eyes	nmod
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 youth	case
51	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 instructors	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 observes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	observe	present	_			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not alter	present · perfect	Miss	the traditional mode of the Moon's conveyance of dinner to Miss's mother		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mode=Patient
3	fear	present	Miss			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	impair	infinitive	Miss not said here	the value of the story	as a moral lesson in the eyes of all instructors of youth	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus value=Experiencer
5	convey		the Moon	dinner	to Miss's mother	nom conveyance «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient to=obl
6	value			the story		nom value «cognition 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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