English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 44

Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells Fairy Tales.

Who acts: propriety, good old nurse, nurse · What happens: speak, be, write, tell · To what, where: ambition, Fairy Tales · 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 (propriety, good old nurse, nurse), 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	Generally	generally	ADV	_	2 speaking	advmod
2	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 ambition	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 speaking	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ambition	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ambition	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 ambition	cop
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ambition	nmod:poss
8	ambition	ambition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 write	mark
10	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ambition	acl
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 speak	mark
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 nurse	det
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 nurse	amod
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 nurse	amod
15	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 speak	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 speak	aux
17	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 write	advcl
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 tells	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tells	nsubj
20	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 speak	advcl
21	Fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Tales	amod
22	Tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 tells	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 ambition	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund	propriety not said here		generally property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present · perfect	propriety	my ambition		tree rules
3	write	to-infinitive				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	speak speech: other	future	a good old nurse			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	present	nurse	Fairy Tales		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient

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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