English Fairy Tales, XIII. Jack and the Beanstalk., sentence 5

I have had greater confidence in my young friends, and have deleted the fairy who did not exist in the tale as told to me.

Who acts: I, fairy · What happens: have, delete, not exist, tell · To what, where: greater confidence, fairy, tale, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. Jack and the Beanstalk.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fairy), 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 had	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 had	aux
3	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 confidence	amod
5	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 friends	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 friends	nmod:poss
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 friends	amod
9	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 deleted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 deleted	cc
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 deleted	aux
13	deleted	delete	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 had	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fairy	det
15	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 deleted	obj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 exist	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 exist	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 exist	advmod
19	exist	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 fairy	acl:relcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 tale	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tale	det
22	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 exist	obl
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 told	mark
24	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 exist	advcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 told	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present · perfect	I	greater confidence			in my young friends	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=Patient
2	delete	present · perfect		the fairy				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme
3	not exist	past · do-support	the fairy			the tale		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tale=Location
4	tell speech: assert	participle	the fairy not said here		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient

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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