English Fairy Tales, I. Tom Tit Tot., sentence 8

Mr. Clodd sees in the class of name-guessing stories, a “survival” of the superstition that to know a man's name gives you power over him, for which reason savages object to tell their names.

Who acts: Clodd, superstition, survival, names, man, stories · What happens: see, guess, know, give, tell, survive · To what, where: class, name, power, you, superstition · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Clodd, superstition, survival, names), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Clodd	nmod:desc
2	Clodd	Clodd	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sees	nsubj
3	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 class	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 class	det
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sees	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 stories	case
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 guessing	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 name	punct
10	guessing	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 stories	amod
11	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 class	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 survival	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 survival	det
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 survival	punct
15	survival	survival	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gives	nsubj
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 survival	punct
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 superstition	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 superstition	det
19	superstition	superstition	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 survival	nmod
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 know	nsubj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 know	mark
22	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 superstition	acl:relcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 name	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 man	case
26	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 know	obj
27	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sees	parataxis
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 gives	iobj
29	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gives	obj
30	over	over	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gives	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 object	punct
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 which	case
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 object	obl
35	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 savages	compound
36	savages	savage	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 object	compound
37	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gives	parataxis
38	to	to	PART	_	39 tell	mark
39	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 object	acl
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 names	nmod:poss
41	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 tell	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sees	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	Clodd Mr.			the class of guessing stories		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	guess	gerund						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	know	to-infinitive	the superstition	a man's name				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
4	give	present	a survival of the superstition	power	you		over Clodd	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient power=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	stories's names					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	survive in a quote			the superstition				nom survival «state transitive»: of=patient
7	name		a man					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent
8	name		stories = story					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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