English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 43
Children appreciate the dramatic propriety of this as much as their elders.
Who acts: Children · What happens: appreciate · To what, where: dramatic propriety
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 (Children), 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 appreciate | nsubj |
| 2 | appreciate | appreciate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 propriety | det |
| 4 | dramatic | dramatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 propriety | amod |
| 5 | propriety | propriety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 appreciate | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 propriety | nmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 propriety | appos |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 elders | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 elders | nmod:poss |
| 12 | elders | elder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 much | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 appreciate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appreciate | present | Children | the dramatic propriety of this | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer propriety=Stimulus |
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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