English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 12

We have called our stories Fairy Tales though few of them speak of fairies.

Who acts: We, few · What happens: call, speak · To what, where: stories · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (We, few), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 called	aux
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 stories	nmod:poss
5	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 called	obj
6	Fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Tales	amod
7	Tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 called	obj
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 speak	mark
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 speak	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 few	nmod
12	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 called	advcl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 fairies	case
14	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 speak	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present · perfect	We	our stories					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme tale=Result
2	speak speech: other	present	few of tales					of fairies	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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