English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 5
A quarter of the tales in this volume, have been collected during the last ten years or so, and some of them have not been hitherto published.
What happens: collect, not publish · To what, where: quarter, some
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 quarter | det |
| 2 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 collected | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 tales | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tales | det |
| 5 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 quarter | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 volume | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 volume | det |
| 8 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tales | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 quarter | punct |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 collected | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 collected | aux:pass |
| 12 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | during | during | ADP | _ | 17 years | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 years | det |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 years | amod |
| 16 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 years | nummod |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 collected | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 so | cc |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 collected | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 published | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 published | cc |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 published | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 some | nmod |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 published | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 published | advmod |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 published | aux:pass |
| 28 | hitherto | hitherto | ADV | _ | 29 published | advmod |
| 29 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 collected | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | present · perfect · passive | a quarter of the tales in this volume | year | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not publish | present · perfect · passive | some | hitherto property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
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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