English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 30
I have also rescued and re-told a few Fairy Tales that only exist now-a-days in the form of ballads.
Who acts: few Fairy Tales · What happens: rescue, re-tol, exist, form · To what, where: I, few Fairy Tales, form, ballads
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 (few Fairy Tales), 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 rescued | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rescued | aux |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 rescued | advmod |
| 4 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 re-told | cc |
| 6 | re-told | re-tol | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 rescued | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Tales | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Tales | amod |
| 9 | Fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Tales | amod |
| 10 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 re-told | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 exist | nsubj |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 exist | advmod |
| 13 | exist | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Tales | acl:relcl |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 exist | advmod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 a | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 days | det |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 a | punct |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 exist | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 form | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 form | det |
| 21 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 exist | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 ballads | case |
| 23 | ballads | ballad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 form | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rescued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rescue | present · perfect · passive | I | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | re-tol | participle | a few Fairy Tales | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | exist | present | a few Fairy Tales | the form of ballads | now; day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in form=Location | |||
| 4 | form | ballads | nom form «communication transitive»: 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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