English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 60
Nor can I close these remarks without a word of thanks and praise to the artistic skill with which my friend, Mr. J. D. Batten, has made the romance and humour of these stories live again in the brilliant designs with which he has adorned these pages.
Who acts: I, romance, remark · What happens: close, make, live, adorn, word, humour · To what, where: remarks, artistic skill, friend, brilliant designs, pages, thanks
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, romance, remark), 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 | Nor | nor | INTJ | _ | 4 close | discourse |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 close | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 close | nsubj |
| 4 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 remarks | det |
| 6 | remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 close | obj |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 word | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 word | det |
| 9 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 close | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 thanks | case |
| 11 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 word | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 praise | cc |
| 13 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thanks | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 skill | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 skill | det |
| 16 | artistic | artistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 skill | amod |
| 17 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 close | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 made | obl |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 friend | nmod:poss |
| 21 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 made | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 J. | punct |
| 23 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 J. | nmod:desc |
| 24 | J. | J. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 friend | appos |
| 25 | D. | D. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 friend | appos |
| 26 | Batten | Batten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 D. | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 friend | punct |
| 28 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 made | aux |
| 29 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 skill | acl:relcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 romance | det |
| 31 | romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 live | nsubj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 humour | cc |
| 33 | humour | humour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 romance | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 stories | case |
| 35 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 36 stories | det |
| 36 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 humour | nmod |
| 37 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 made | parataxis |
| 38 | again | again | ADV | _ | 37 live | advmod |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 designs | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 designs | det |
| 41 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 designs | amod |
| 42 | designs | design | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 live | obl |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 which | case |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 adorned | obl |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 adorned | nsubj |
| 46 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 adorned | aux |
| 47 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 designs | acl:relcl |
| 48 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 49 pages | det |
| 49 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 adorned | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 close | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | can | I | this remarks | the artistic skill | without a word of thanks and praise | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent remark=Patient to skill=Recipient | ||
| 2 | make | present · perfect · passive | my friend | with the artistic skill | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | live | present | the romance and humour of this stories | the brilliant designs | again | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in design=Location | |||
| 4 | adorn | present · perfect | remark | this pages | with the brilliant designs | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent page=Destination with which=Theme | |||
| 5 | word | thanks and praise | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | humour | this stories | nom humour «feeling 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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