English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 13
[Footnote: For some recent views on fairies and tales _about_ fairies, see Notes.]
Who acts: recent views · What happens: _, see · To what, where: Footnote, Notes
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 (recent views), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 2 | Footnote | footnote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 _ | obl |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 views | punct |
| 4 | For | for | ADP | _ | 7 views | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 views | det |
| 6 | recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 views | amod |
| 7 | views | view | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 _ | nsubj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 fairies | case |
| 9 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 views | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tales | cc |
| 11 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fairies | conj |
| 12 | _ | _ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 fairies | case |
| 14 | _ | _ | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 fairies | nummod |
| 15 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 _ | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 _ | conj |
| 18 | Notes | Note | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 _ | punct |
| 20 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 12 _ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ | present | some recent views on fairies and tales | Footnote | about _ fairies | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | infinitive | some recent views on fairies and tales not said here | Notes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus |
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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