English Fairy Tales, I. Tom Tit Tot., sentence 9

It may be necessary, I find, to explain to the little ones that Tom Tit can only be referred to as “that,” because his name is not known till the end.

Who acts: I, Tom · What happens: be, find, explain, refer, not know, name · To what, where: little ones, Tom, name

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, Tom), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 necessary	expl
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 necessary	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 necessary	cop
4	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 find	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 find	nsubj
7	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 necessary	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 explain	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	10 explain	mark
10	explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 find	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 ones	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ones	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ones	amod
14	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 explain	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 referred	obj
16	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 referred	nsubj:pass
17	Tit	Tit	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Tom	flat
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 referred	aux
19	only	only	ADV	_	21 referred	advmod
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 referred	aux:pass
21	referred	refer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 ones	acl:relcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	21 referred	obl
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 that	case
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 that	punct
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 referred	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 find	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 necessary	punct
28	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 known	mark
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 name	nmod:poss
30	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 known	nsubj:pass
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 known	aux:pass
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 known	advmod
33	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 necessary	advcl
34	till	till	ADP	_	36 end	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 end	det
36	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 known	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 necessary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	may					necessary property	tree rules
2	find	present	I					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here		the little ones			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient
4	refer	can · passive		Tom			as the little ones	tree rules
5	not know	present · passive		Tom's name		till the end		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
6	name		Tom					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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