English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 36

“Dass der Ausdruck,” say they in their Preface, “und die Ausführung des Einzelnen grossentheils von uns herrührt, versteht sich von selbst.”

Who acts: Dass, Brothers · What happens: say, de, preface · To what, where: Einzelnen grossentheils, Preface · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Dass, 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 Dass	punct
2	Dass	Dass	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
3	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 Dass	conj
4	Ausdruck	Ausdruck	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Dass	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Dass	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Dass	punct
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 des	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 Preface	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 Preface	nmod:poss
11	Preface	preface	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 des	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 die	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 die	punct
14	und	und	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 die	amod
15	die	die	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 des	nsubj
16	Ausführung	Ausführung	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 die	appos
17	des	de	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
18	Einzelnen	Einzelnen	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 grossentheils	compound
19	grossentheils	grossentheil	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 des	obj
20	von	von	ADP	_	22 herrührt	case
21	uns	un	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 herrührt	compound
22	herrührt	herrührt	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 des	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sich	punct
24	versteht	versteht	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sich	compound
25	sich	sich	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 herrührt	appos
26	von	von	X	_	27 selbst	compound
27	selbst	selbst	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sich	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Dass				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	de in a quote	present	Brothers = brother	Einzelnen grossentheils	Brothers's Preface	von uns herrührt	tree rules
3	preface		Brothers = brother				nom preface «communication transitive»: poss=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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