English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 53
I hope on some future occasion to treat the subject of the English Folk-tale on a larger scale and with all the necessary paraphernalia of prolegomena and excursus.
Who acts: I · What happens: hope, treat · To what, where: future occasion, subject, larger scale
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 hope | nsubj |
| 2 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 occasion | case |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 occasion | det |
| 5 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 occasion | amod |
| 6 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hope | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 treat | mark |
| 8 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hope | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 subject | det |
| 10 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 treat | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tale | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tale | det |
| 13 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tale | amod |
| 14 | Folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tale | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Folk | punct |
| 16 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 subject | nmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 scale | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 scale | det |
| 19 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 scale | amod |
| 20 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 treat | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 paraphernalia | cc |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 paraphernalia | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 paraphernalia | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 paraphernalia | det |
| 25 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 paraphernalia | amod |
| 26 | paraphernalia | paraphernalia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 scale | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 prolegomena | case |
| 28 | prolegomena | prolegomena | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 paraphernalia | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 excursus | cc |
| 30 | excursus | excursus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 prolegomena | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present | I | some future occasion | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | treat | to-infinitive | I not said here | the subject of the English Folk tale | a larger scale and all necessary paraphernalia of prolegomena and excursus | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
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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