English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 41

I have also had to reduce the flatulent phraseology of the eighteenth-century chap-books, and to re-write in simpler style the stories only extant in “Literary” English.

Who acts: I · What happens: have, reduce, re-write · To what, where: flatulent phraseology, simpler style

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	4 had	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 had	aux
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 reduce	mark
6	reduce	reduce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 phraseology	det
8	flatulent	flatulent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 phraseology	amod
9	phraseology	phraseology	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reduce	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	17 books	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 books	det
12	eighteenth	eighteenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 century	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 eighteenth	punct
14	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 books	nsubj
15	chap	chap	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 books	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 chap	punct
17	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 phraseology	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 re-write	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 re-write	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 re-write	mark
21	re-write	re-write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 reduce	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 style	case
23	simpler	simple	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 style	amod
24	style	style	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 re-write	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stories	det
26	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 style	nmod
27	only	only	ADV	_	28 extant	advmod
28	extant	extant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 stories	amod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 Literary	case
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 Literary	punct
31	Literary	Literary	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 extant	obl
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 Literary	punct
33	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Literary	flat
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present · perfect	I			tree rules
2	reduce	to-infinitive	I not said here	the flatulent phraseology of the chap books		vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer phraseology=Patient
3	re-write	to-infinitive	I not said here		simpler style the stories	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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