English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 2
Who says that English folk have no fairy-tales of their own?
Who acts: English folk · What happens: say, have · To what, where: fairy tales · 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 (English folk), 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 4 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 folk | compound |
| 5 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 tales | det |
| 8 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tales | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 fairy | punct |
| 10 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 own | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 own | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tales | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | have | present | English folk | no fairy tales of tales's own | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=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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