English Fairy Tales, I. Tom Tit Tot., sentence 7
_Remarks_.--One of the best folk-tales that have ever been collected, far superior to any of the continental variants of this tale with which I am acquainted.
Who acts: I, tale · What happens: collect, be, vary · To what, where: best folk tales
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Tom Tit Tot.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, tale), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Remarks | punct |
| 2 | Remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 One | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 5 One | punct |
| 5 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Remarks | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tales | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tales | det |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 tales | amod |
| 9 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tales | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 folk | punct |
| 11 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 One | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 collected | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 collected | aux |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 collected | advmod |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 collected | aux:pass |
| 16 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 tales | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 superior | punct |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 superior | advmod |
| 19 | superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 One | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 any | case |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 superior | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 variants | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 variants | det |
| 24 | continental | continental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 variants | amod |
| 25 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 any | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 tale | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 tale | det |
| 28 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 variants | nmod |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 which | case |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 acquainted | obl |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 acquainted | nsubj |
| 32 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 acquainted | cop |
| 33 | acquainted | acquainted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 tale | acl:relcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Remarks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | present · perfect · passive | the best folk tales | ever | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | with this tale; acquainted property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | vary | this tale | nom variant «event 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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