English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 18

The words “Fairy Tales” must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something “fairy,” something extraordinary--fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals.

Who acts: tales, animals · What happens: take, include, occur, speak · To what, where: words, tales, something · 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 (tales, animals), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 taken	nsubj:pass
3	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 Tales	punct
4	Fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Tales	amod
5	Tales	Tale	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 words	appos
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 Tales	punct
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 taken	aux
8	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	10 taken	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 taken	aux:pass
10	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 include	mark
12	include	include	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 taken	xcomp
13	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 include	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 occurs	nsubj
16	occurs	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tales	acl:relcl
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 occurs	obj
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 fairy	punct
19	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 something	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 occurs	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 include	punct
22	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 include	obj
23	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 something	amod
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 fairies	punct
25	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 something	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 giants	punct
27	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 something	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dwarfs	punct
29	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 something	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 speaking	punct
31	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 something	conj
32	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 speaking	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	must · passive		the words	accordingly property	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
2	include	to-infinitive		tales		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tale=Theme something=Location
3	occur	present	tales	something		tree rules
4	speak speech: other	gerund	animals			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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/3/18/