English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 11

A word or two as to our title seems necessary.

Who acts: word, our · What happens: seem, title

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to My Dear Little May_. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word, our), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seems	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 two	cc
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 word	conj
5	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	8 title	case
6	to	to	ADP	_	5 as	fixed
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 title	nmod:poss
8	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 word	nmod
9	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 seems	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	present	a word as our title					necessary property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	title		our						nom title «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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