English Fairy Tales, XVIII. the Three Bears., sentence 6

In Southey's version there is nothing of Little Silverhair as the heroine: she seems to have been introduced in a metrical version by G. N., much be-praised by Southey.

Who acts: nothing, folk, G. N, Southey · What happens: be, seem, introduce, praise · To what, where: version, metrical version, much

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVIII. the Three Bears.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, folk, G. N, Southey), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 version	case
2	Southey	Southey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 version	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Southey	case
4	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 is	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 is	expl
6	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 is	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Silverhair	case
9	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Silverhair	amod
10	Silverhair	silverhair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nothing	nmod
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 heroine	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 heroine	det
13	heroine	heroine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Silverhair	nmod
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 seems	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seems	nsubj
16	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 is	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	20 introduced	mark
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 introduced	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 introduced	aux:pass
20	introduced	introduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 seems	xcomp
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 version	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 version	det
23	metrical	metrical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 version	amod
24	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 introduced	obl
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 N	case
26	G.	G.	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 N	compound
27	N	N	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 introduced	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 seems	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 praised	punct
30	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 praised	nsubj:pass
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 praised	aux:pass
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 praised	punct
33	praised	praise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 seems	conj
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 Southey	case
35	Southey	Southey	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 praised	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	present	nothing		Southey's version; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in version=Location
2	seem	present	folk			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	introduce	to-infinitive · perfect · passive	G. N		a metrical version	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	praise	infinitive · passive	Southey	much		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/68/6/