English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 15
Yet our stories are what the little ones mean when they clamour for “Fairy Tales,” and this is the only name which they give to them.
Who acts: stories, little ones, this · What happens: be, mean, clamour, give · To what, where: only name, tales
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 (stories, little ones, this), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 5 what | cc |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 stories | nmod:poss |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 what | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | cop |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ones | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ones | amod |
| 8 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 mean | nsubj |
| 9 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 clamour | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 clamour | nsubj |
| 12 | clamour | clamour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mean | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 Tales | case |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Tales | punct |
| 15 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Tales | compound |
| 16 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 clamour | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Tales | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Tales | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 name | cc |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 name | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 name | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 name | det |
| 23 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 name | amod |
| 24 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Tales | conj |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 give | obj |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 give | nsubj |
| 27 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 name | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 give | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | our stories | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | the little ones | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | clamour | stories = story | for Fairy Tales and the only name | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | this | the only name | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | give | present | stories = story | the only name | tales = tale | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Theme to they=Recipient |
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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