English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 47
In a few instances I have introduced or changed an incident.
What happens: introduce, change · To what, where: I, few instances, incident
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 instances | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 instances | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 instances | amod |
| 4 | instances | instance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 introduced | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 introduced | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 introduced | aux |
| 7 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 changed | cc |
| 9 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 introduced | conj |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 incident | det |
| 11 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 changed | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 introduced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | introduce | present · perfect · passive | I | a few instances | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | change | participle | a incident | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incident=Patient |
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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