English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 50

They indicate my sources and give a few references to parallels and variants which may be of interest to fellow-students of Folk-lore.

Who acts: print, parallels · What happens: indicate, give, be, fellow · To what, where: sources, few references, parallels, students

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 (print, parallels), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 indicate	nsubj
2	indicate	indicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sources	nmod:poss
4	sources	source	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 indicate	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 give	cc
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 indicate	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 references	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 references	amod
9	references	reference	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 parallels	case
11	parallels	parallel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 variants	cc
13	variants	variant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 parallels	conj
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 interest	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 interest	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 interest	cop
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 interest	case
18	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 parallels	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 fellow	mark
20	fellow	fellow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 interest	acl
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 students	punct
22	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fellow	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 lore	case
24	Folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lore	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 Folk	punct
26	lore	lore	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 students	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 indicate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	indicate	present	print	my sources			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot source=Topic
2	give	present	print not said here	a few references	parallels and variants and interest		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent reference=Theme to parallel=Recipient
3	is	may	parallels and variants and interest			of interest	tree rules
4	fellow	to-infinitive	print not said here	students of Folk lore			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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