English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 35

[Footnote: It is perhaps worth remarking that the Brothers Grimm did the same with their stories.

Who acts: It, Brothers · What happens: be, remark, do · To what, where: same

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 (It, Brothers), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 Footnote	punct
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 worth	punct
4	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 worth	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 worth	cop
6	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	7 worth	advmod
7	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Footnote	parataxis
8	remarking	remark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 worth	csubj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 did	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Brothers	det
11	Brothers	Brother	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 did	nsubj
12	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Brothers	compound
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 remarking	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 same	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 did	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 stories	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 stories	nmod:poss
18	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 same	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Footnote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		perhaps, worth property	tree rules
2	remark speech: assert	gerund				vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	past	the Brothers	the same		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality

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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