English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 25

Thus, a couple of these stories have been found among descendants of English immigrants in America; a couple of others I tell as I heard them myself in my youth in Australia.

Who acts: I · What happens: find, tell, hear · To what, where: couple, stories, youth · 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 (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7439:23): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thus	thus	ADV	_	10 found	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thus	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 couple	det
4	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	nsubj:pass
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 stories	case
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 stories	det
7	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 couple	nmod
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 found	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 found	aux:pass
10	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	among	among	ADP	_	12 descendants	case
12	descendants	descendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 found	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 immigrants	case
14	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 immigrants	amod
15	immigrants	immigrant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 descendants	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 America	case
17	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 immigrants	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 couple	det
20	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tell	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 others	case
22	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 couple	nmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 tell	nsubj
24	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 found	conj
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 heard	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 heard	nsubj
27	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 tell	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 heard	obj
29	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	27 heard	obl:unmarked
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 youth	case
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 youth	nmod:poss
32	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 heard	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 Australia	case
34	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 youth	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	present · perfect · passive		a couple of this stories		among descendants of English immigrants in America; thus property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	present	I	a couple of others			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent couple=Recipient
3	hear	past	I	stories = story	my youth in Australia	myself obl:unmarked	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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