English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 24

I have acted on Molière's principle, and have taken what was good wherever I could find it.

Who acts: I · What happens: act, take, be, find · To what, where: principle

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 acted	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 acted	aux
3	acted	act	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 principle	case
5	Molière	Molière	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 principle	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Molière	case
7	principle	principle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 acted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 taken	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 taken	cc
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 taken	aux
11	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 acted	parataxis
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 good	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 good	cop
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 taken	conj
15	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	18 find	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 find	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 good	csubj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 find	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 acted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	act	present · perfect	I		Molière's principle		vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on principle=Eventuality
2	take	present · perfect					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	past				good property	tree rules
4	find	could	I	principle		wherever property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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