English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 37
I may add that many of their stories were taken from printed sources.
Who acts: I · What happens: add, take, print · To what, where: many, printed sources
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 add | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 add | aux |
| 3 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 taken | mark |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 stories | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 stories | nmod:poss |
| 8 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 many | nmod |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 taken | aux:pass |
| 10 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 add | advcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 sources | case |
| 12 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 sources | amod | |
| 13 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 taken | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 add | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | may | I | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | past · passive | many of Brothers's stories | printed sources | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from source=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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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