English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 45

I am doubtful as to my success in catching the colloquial-romantic tone appropriate for such narratives, but the thing had to be done or else my main object, to give a book of English Fairy Tales which English children will listen to, would have been unachieved.

Who acts: I, success, thing, English children · What happens: be, catch, have, do, give, listen · To what, where: romantic tone, book, English Fairy Tales

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, success, thing, English 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 doubtful	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 doubtful	cop
3	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	7 success	case
5	to	to	ADP	_	4 as	fixed
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 success	nmod:poss
7	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 doubtful	obl
8	in	in	SCONJ	_	9 catching	mark
9	catching	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 success	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tone	det
11	colloquial	colloquial	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 romantic	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 colloquial	punct
13	romantic	romantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tone	amod
14	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 catching	obj
15	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tone	amod
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 narratives	case
17	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 narratives	amod
18	narratives	narrative	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 appropriate	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 had	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 thing	det
22	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 doubtful	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	26 done	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 done	aux:pass
26	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 had	xcomp
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 object	cc
28	else	else	ADV	_	31 object	advmod
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 object	nmod:poss
30	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 object	amod
31	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 done	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 give	punct
33	to	to	PART	_	34 give	mark
34	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 had	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 book	det
36	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 give	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 Tales	case
38	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Tales	compound
39	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Tales	compound
40	Tales	Tale	PROPN	Number=Plur	36 book	nmod
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 listen	obj
42	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 children	amod
43	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 listen	nsubj
44	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 listen	aux
45	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 Tales	acl:relcl
46	to	to	ADP	_	45 listen	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 unachieved	punct
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 unachieved	aux
49	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 unachieved	aux
50	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	51 unachieved	aux:pass
51	unachieved	unachiev	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 give	advcl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 doubtful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		as my success; doubtful property	tree rules
2	catch	gerund	my success not said here	the romantic tone		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tone=Theme
3	have	past	the thing			tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive · passive	the thing not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»
5	give	to-infinitive	the thing not said here	a book of English Fairy Tales		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme
6	listen	future	English children	English Fairy Tales		tree rules
7	unachiev	would · perfect · passive	the thing not said here			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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