English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 54
I shall then, of course, reproduce my originals with literal accuracy, and have therefore felt the more at liberty on the present occasion to make the necessary deviations from this in order to make the tales readable for children.
Who acts: I · What happens: reproduce, feel, make · To what, where: originals, liberty, necessary deviations, this, 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 (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 | 8 reproduce | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 reproduce | aux |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 reproduce | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 8 reproduce | advmod |
| 6 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 of | fixed |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 of | punct |
| 8 | reproduce | reproduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 originals | nmod:poss |
| 10 | originals | original | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 reproduce | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 accuracy | case |
| 12 | literal | literal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 accuracy | amod |
| 13 | accuracy | accuracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reproduce | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 felt | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 felt | cc |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 felt | aux |
| 17 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 18 felt | advmod |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 reproduce | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 more | det |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 felt | advmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 liberty | case |
| 22 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 felt | obl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 occasion | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 occasion | det |
| 25 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 occasion | amod |
| 26 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 liberty | nmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 make | mark |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 occasion | acl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 deviations | det |
| 30 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 deviations | amod |
| 31 | deviations | deviation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 make | obj |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 this | case |
| 33 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 deviations | nmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 order | case |
| 35 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 deviations | nmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 make | mark |
| 37 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 make | advcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 tales | det |
| 39 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 make | obj |
| 40 | readable | readable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 tales | amod |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 children | case |
| 42 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 readable | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reproduce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reproduce | shall | I | my originals | then | with literal accuracy | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent original=Patient with accuracy=Instrument | ||
| 2 | feel | present · perfect | I not said here | liberty on the present occasion | therefore property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at liberty=Location | |||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | I not said here | the necessary deviations | this | in order | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset deviation=Product from this=Material | ||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | I not said here | the tales | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tale=Product |
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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