English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 42
I have, however, left a few vulgarisms in the mouths of vulgar people.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, leave · To what, where: few vulgarisms, mouths
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 | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 left | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 vulgarisms | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 vulgarisms | amod |
| 9 | vulgarisms | vulgarism | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 left | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 mouths | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mouths | det |
| 12 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 left | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 people | case |
| 14 | vulgar | vulgar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 people | amod |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 mouths | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave | past | I not said here | a few vulgarisms | the mouths of vulgar people | however property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent vulgarism=Theme in mouth=Location |
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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