English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 28

I have felt justified in doing this, as of the twenty-one folk-tales contained in Chambers' “Popular Rhymes of Scotland,” no less than sixteen are also to be found in an English form.

Who acts: I, one folk tales, Scotland · What happens: feel, do, contain, find, rhyme · To what, where: this, sixteen, Popular Rhymes, one folk tales, English form

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, one folk tales, Scotland), 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 felt	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 felt	aux
3	felt	feel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	justified	justified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 felt	xcomp
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 doing	mark
6	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 felt	advcl
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 doing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tales	punct
9	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	17 tales	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 as	fixed
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tales	det
12	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 one	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 twenty	punct
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 tales	nummod
15	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tales	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 folk	punct
17	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 found	nsubj:pass
18	contained	contain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 tales	acl
19	in	in	ADP	_	24 Rhymes	case
20	Chambers	chamber	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 Rhymes	nmod:poss
21	'	's	PART	_	20 Chambers	case
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 Rhymes	punct
23	Popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Rhymes	amod
24	Rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 contained	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Scotland	case
26	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Rhymes	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 contained	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 contained	punct
29	no	no	ADV	_	32 sixteen	advmod
30	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	32 sixteen	advmod
31	than	than	ADP	_	30 less	fixed
32	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 contained	obl
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 found	aux:pass
34	also	also	ADV	_	37 found	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	37 found	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 found	aux:pass
37	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 felt	parataxis
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 form	case
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 form	det
40	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 form	amod
41	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 found	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	present · perfect	I			justified property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	do	gerund	I not said here	this			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
3	contain	participle	the one folk tales not said here	sixteen	Chambers's Popular Rhymes of Scotland		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in rhyme=Location
4	find	present · passive		the one folk tales	a English form		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
5	rhyme in a quote		Scotland				nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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