English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 32
In one case I have endeavoured to retain this form, as the tale in which it occurs, “Childe Rowland,” is mentioned by Shakespeare in _King Lear_, and is probably, as I have shown, the source of Milton's _Comus_.
Who acts: I, form, Shakespeare · What happens: endeavour, retain, occur, mention, be, show · To what, where: one case, form, Childe, tale, King Lear, source
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, form, Shakespeare), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 case | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 case | nummod |
| 3 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 endeavoured | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 endeavoured | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 endeavoured | aux |
| 6 | endeavoured | endeavour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 retain | mark |
| 8 | retain | retain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 endeavoured | xcomp |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 form | det |
| 10 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 retain | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tale | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 tale | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tale | det |
| 14 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 mentioned | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 occurs | obl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 occurs | nsubj |
| 18 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tale | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Childe | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Childe | punct |
| 21 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 occurs | obj |
| 22 | Rowland | Rowland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Childe | flat |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Childe | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 occurs | punct |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 mentioned | aux:pass |
| 26 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 retain | advcl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 Shakespeare | case |
| 28 | Shakespeare | Shakespeare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 mentioned | obl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 Lear | case |
| 30 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 King | compound |
| 31 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Lear | compound |
| 32 | Lear | Lear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 mentioned | obl |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 Lear | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 probably | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 probably | cc |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 probably | cop |
| 37 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 6 endeavoured | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 shown | punct |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 shown | mark |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 shown | nsubj |
| 41 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 shown | aux |
| 42 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 endeavoured | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 source | punct |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 source | det |
| 45 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 shown | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 _ | case |
| 47 | Milton | Milton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 _ | nmod:poss |
| 48 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 47 Milton | case |
| 49 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 source | nmod |
| 50 | Comus | Comus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 _ | flat |
| 51 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 42 shown | punct |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 endeavoured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endeavour | present · perfect | I | one case | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | retain | to-infinitive | I not said here | this form | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | occur | present | form | Childe | the tale | tree rules | |||
| 4 | mention speech: other | present · passive | Shakespeare | the tale | King Lear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | |||
| 5 | is | present | probably property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | show | present · perfect | I | the source of Milton's _ | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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