English Fairy Tales, XI. Cap O' Rushes., sentence 5

“Catskin” was told by Mr. Burchell to the young Primroses in “The Vicar of Wakefield,'” and has been elaborately studied by the late H. C. Coote, in _Folk-Lore Record_, iii.

Who acts: Burchell, late H. C. · What happens: tell, study · To what, where: Catskin, young Primroses, Folk Lore · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XI. Cap O' Rushes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Burchell, late H. C.), 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 Catskin	punct
2	Catskin	catskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj:pass
3	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Catskin	punct
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux:pass
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 Burchell	case
7	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Burchell	nmod:desc
8	Burchell	Burchell	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 Primroses	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Primroses	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Primroses	amod
12	Primroses	Primrose	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 told	iobj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 Vicar	case
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 Vicar	punct
15	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Vicar	det
16	Vicar	Vicar	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Primroses	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Wakefield	case
18	Wakefield	Wakefield	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Vicar	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Primroses	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 Primroses	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 Primroses	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 studied	cc
23	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 studied	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 studied	aux:pass
25	elaborately	elaborately	ADV	_	26 studied	advmod
26	studied	study	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 told	conj
27	by	by	ADP	_	31 C.	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 C.	det
29	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 C.	amod
30	H.	H.	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 C.	compound
31	C.	C.	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 studied	obl:agent
32	Coote	Coote	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 C.	flat
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Lore	punct
34	in	in	ADP	_	38 Lore	case
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	38 Lore	punct
36	Folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 Lore	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 Folk	punct
38	Lore	Lore	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 studied	obl
39	Record	Record	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Lore	flat
40	_	_	PUNCT	_	38 Lore	punct
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 iii	punct
42	iii	III	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	38 Lore	appos
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive	Burchell Mr.	Catskin	the young Primroses in the Vicar of Wakefield				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient primrose=Topic
2	study	present · perfect · passive	the late H. C.			Folk Lore		elaborately property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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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