English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 51

It is, perhaps, not necessary to inform readers who are not fellow-students that the study of Folk-tales has pretensions to be a science.

Who acts: readers, study · What happens: not be, inform, have, be, study · To what, where: readers, fellow students, that, science, Folk 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 (readers, study), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 necessary	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 necessary	cop
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 necessary	punct
4	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	7 necessary	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 necessary	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 necessary	advmod
7	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 inform	mark
9	inform	inform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 necessary	csubj
10	readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 inform	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 students	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 students	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 students	advmod
14	fellow	fellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 students	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 fellow	punct
16	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 readers	nmod
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 has	obj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 study	det
19	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 has	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 tales	case
21	Folk	Folk	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 tales	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 Folk	punct
23	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 study	nmod
24	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 students	parataxis
25	pretensions	pretension	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 has	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	29 science	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 science	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 science	det
29	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pretensions	acl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 necessary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present			necessary, perhaps property	tree rules
2	inform speech: other	to-infinitive		readers		vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reader=Recipient
3	not is a	present	readers	fellow students		tree rules
4	have	present	the study of Folk tales	that		tree rules
5	is a	to-infinitive	the study of Folk tales not said here	a science		tree rules
6	study			Folk tales		nom study «act transitive»: of=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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