English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 17
As our book is intended for the little ones, we have indicated its contents by the name they use.
Who acts: we, contents · What happens: intend, indicate, use · To what, where: book, contents, name
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, contents), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 intended | mark |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 book | nmod:poss |
| 3 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 intended | aux:pass |
| 5 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 indicated | advcl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 ones | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ones | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ones | amod |
| 9 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 intended | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 intended | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 indicated | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 indicated | aux |
| 13 | indicated | indicate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 contents | nmod:poss |
| 15 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 indicated | obj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 name | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 name | det |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 indicated | obl |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 use | nsubj |
| 20 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 name | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 indicated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intend | present · passive | our book | for the little ones | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | indicate | present · perfect | we | book's contents | by the name | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot contents=Topic | |||
| 3 | use | present | contents | the name not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=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: «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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