English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 22

The story of Tom Tit Tot, which opens our collection, is unequalled among all other folk-tales I am acquainted with, for its combined sense of humour and dramatic power.

Who acts: Tom Tit, I, collection · What happens: open, unequall, be, combine, sense · To what, where: collection, story, other folk tales, humour

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 (Tom Tit, I, collection), 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 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 unequalled	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Tit	case
4	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Tit	compound
5	Tit	Tit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 story	nmod
6	Tot	Tot	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Tit	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 opens	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 opens	nsubj
9	opens	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Tit	acl:relcl
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 collection	nmod:poss
11	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 opens	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 story	punct
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 unequalled	aux:pass
14	unequalled	unequall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	among	among	ADP	_	20 tales	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 tales	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tales	amod
18	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tales	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 folk	punct
20	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 unequalled	obl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 acquainted	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 acquainted	cop
23	acquainted	acquainted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tales	acl:relcl
24	with	with	ADP	_	23 acquainted	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sense	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 sense	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 sense	nmod:poss
28	combined	combine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 sense	amod
29	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 unequalled	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 humour	case
31	humour	humour	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sense	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 power	cc
33	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 power	amod
34	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sense	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 unequalled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	open	present	Tom Tit	our collection		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location collection=Theme
2	unequall	present · passive		the story of Tom Tit	among all other folk tales	tree rules
3	is	present	I	all other folk tales not said here	acquainted property	tree rules
4	combine	participle				vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	sense		collection	humour		nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=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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