English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 33

Late as they have been collected, some dozen of the tales can be traced back to the sixteenth century, two of them being quoted by Shakespeare himself.

Who acts: Shakespeare · What happens: collect, trace back, quote · To what, where: tales

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 (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	Late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 collected	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 collected	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 collected	nsubj:pass
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 collected	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 collected	aux:pass
6	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 traced	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dozen	punct
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 dozen	det
9	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 collected	parataxis
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 tales	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tales	det
12	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dozen	nmod
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 traced	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 traced	aux:pass
15	traced	trace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 traced	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 century	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 century	det
19	sixteenth	sixteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 century	amod
20	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 traced	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 two	punct
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 century	appos
23	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 quoted	mark
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 quoted	nsubj:pass
25	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 quoted	aux:pass
26	quoted	quote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 two	acl
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 Shakespeare	case
28	Shakespeare	Shakespeare	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 quoted	obl
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 quoted	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 traced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	collect	present · perfect · passive		tales = tale		late property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	trace back	can · passive			century		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»
3	quote speech: other	gerund · passive	Shakespeare	tales = tale		Shakespeare obl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic

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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