English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 27
I have also included some stories that have only been found in Lowland Scotch.
Who acts: I, stories · What happens: include, have, find · To what, where: stories, Lowland
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, stories), 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 | 4 included | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 included | aux |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 included | advmod |
| 4 | included | include | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 stories | det |
| 6 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 included | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stories | acl:relcl |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 found | advmod |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 found | aux:pass |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 have | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Lowland | case |
| 13 | Lowland | Lowland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obl |
| 14 | Scotch | Scotch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Lowland | flat |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 included | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | present · perfect | I | some stories | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | some stories | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | find | participle · passive | some stories not said here | Lowland | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» |
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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