English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 8

I am hoping that the present volume may lead to equal activity in this country, and would earnestly beg any reader of this book who knows of similar tales, to communicate them, written down as they are told, to me, care of Mr. Nutt.

Who acts: I, present volume, book, Nutt · What happens: hope, lead, beg, know, communicate, write down · To what, where: reader, tales, me · 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 (I, present volume, book, Nutt), 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	3 hoping	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hoping	aux
3	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 lead	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 volume	det
6	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 volume	amod
7	volume	volume	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lead	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 lead	aux
9	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hoping	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 activity	case
11	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 activity	amod
12	activity	activity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lead	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 country	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 country	det
15	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 activity	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 beg	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 beg	cc
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 beg	aux
19	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	20 beg	advmod
20	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 hoping	parataxis
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 reader	det
22	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 beg	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 book	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 book	det
25	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reader	nmod
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 knows	nsubj
27	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 book	acl:relcl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 tales	case
29	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tales	amod
30	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 knows	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 communicate	punct
32	to	to	PART	_	33 communicate	mark
33	communicate	communicate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 beg	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 communicate	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 written	punct
36	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hoping	parataxis
37	down	down	ADP	_	36 written	compound:prt
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 told	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 told	nsubj:pass
40	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 told	aux:pass
41	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 written	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 me	punct
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 me	case
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 told	iobj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 care	punct
46	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 told	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 Nutt	case
48	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Nutt	nmod:desc
49	Nutt	Nutt	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 care	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hoping	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hope	present · progressive	I				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	lead	may	the present volume			to equal activity in this country	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to activity=Patient
3	beg speech: request	would		any reader of this book		earnestly property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent reader=Recipient
4	know	present	this book			of similar tales	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of tale=Stimulus
5	communicate	to-infinitive		tales = tale			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
6	write down	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	tell speech: assert	present · passive		tales = tale	me	care of Nutt Mr. obl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic
8	care		Nutt Mr.				nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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