English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 34

In the majority of instances I have had largely to rewrite these Fairy Tales, especially those in dialect, including the Lowland Scotch.

Who acts: I · What happens: have, rewrite · To what, where: majority, Fairy 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 (I), 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 majority	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 majority	det
3	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 instances	case
5	instances	instance	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 majority	nmod
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 had	aux
8	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	largely	largely	ADV	_	11 rewrite	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 rewrite	mark
11	rewrite	rewrite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 had	xcomp
12	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 Tales	det
13	Fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Tales	amod
14	Tales	Tale	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 rewrite	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 those	punct
16	especially	especially	ADV	_	17 those	advmod
17	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 rewrite	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 dialect	case
19	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 those	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 those	punct
21	including	including	ADP	_	24 Scotch	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Scotch	det
23	Lowland	Lowland	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Scotch	compound
24	Scotch	Scotch	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 rewrite	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · perfect	I			the majority of instances			tree rules
2	rewrite	to-infinitive	I not said here	this Fairy Tales				including the Lowland Scotch; those obl; largely property	tree rules

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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