English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 19

It must be taken also to cover tales in which what is extraordinary is the stupidity of some of the actors.

Who acts: extraordinary stupidity · What happens: take, cover, be · To what, where: It, tales, extraordinary stupidity

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 (extraordinary stupidity), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taken	nsubj:pass
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 taken	aux:pass
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	also	also	ADV	_	7 cover	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cover	mark
7	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 taken	advcl
8	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cover	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 stupidity	obl
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 extraordinary	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 extraordinary	cop
13	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stupidity	amod
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 stupidity	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stupidity	det
16	stupidity	stupidity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tales	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 some	case
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 stupidity	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 actors	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 actors	det
21	actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 some	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	must · passive		It			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	cover	to-infinitive		tales			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tale=Destination
3	is	present	the extraordinary stupidity			extraordinary property	tree rules
4	is a	present		the extraordinary stupidity	tales	of some	tree rules

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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