English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 6
Up to 1870 it was equally said of France and of Italy, that they possessed no folk-tales.
Who acts: France · What happens: say, possess · To what, where: quarter, 1870, folk tales · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (France), 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 3 1870 | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 1870 | case |
| 3 | 1870 | 1870 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 said | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | aux:pass |
| 6 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 France | case |
| 9 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Italy | cc |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Italy | case |
| 12 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 France | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 possessed | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 possessed | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 possessed | nsubj |
| 16 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 tales | det |
| 18 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tales | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 folk | punct |
| 20 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 possessed | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · passive | quarter | 1870 | of France and Italy; equally property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to 1870=Recipient | |||
| 2 | possess | past | France | no folk tales | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tale=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.
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