English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 52

It has its special terminology, and its own methods of investigation, by which it is hoped, one of these days, to gain fuller knowledge of the workings of the popular mind as well as traces of archaic modes of thought and custom.

Who acts: study, own methods · What happens: have, hope, gain · To what, where: special terminology, study, knowledge

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 (study, own methods), 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	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 terminology	nmod:poss
4	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 terminology	amod
5	terminology	terminology	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 methods	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 methods	cc
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 methods	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 methods	amod
10	methods	method	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 investigation	case
12	investigation	investigation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 methods	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hoped	punct
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 hoped	obl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hoped	nsubj:pass
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 hoped	aux:pass
18	hoped	hope	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 methods	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 one	punct
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 methods	appos
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 days	case
22	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 days	det
23	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 one	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gain	punct
25	to	to	PART	_	26 gain	mark
26	gain	gain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 has	parataxis
27	fuller	full	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 knowledge	advmod
28	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gain	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 workings	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 workings	det
31	workings	working	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 knowledge	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 mind	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 mind	det
34	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 mind	amod
35	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 workings	nmod
36	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	39 traces	cc
37	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 as	fixed
38	as	as	ADP	_	36 as	fixed
39	traces	trace	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 knowledge	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 modes	case
41	archaic	archaic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 modes	amod
42	modes	mode	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 traces	nmod
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 thought	case
44	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 modes	nmod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 custom	cc
46	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 thought	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	study	study's special terminology	tree rules
2	hope	present · passive	study's own methods of investigation	study	tree rules
3	gain	to-infinitive		knowledge of the workings of the popular mind as traces of archaic modes of thought and custom	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/3/52/