English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 21

I may add that Motherwell in his _Minstrelsy_, p. xiv. note, testifies that the story was still extant in the nursery at the time he wrote (1828).]

Who acts: I, story, Motherwell · What happens: add, testify, be, write, note · To what, where: Motherwell, Minstrelsy note, nursery, 1828 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, story, Motherwell), 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 add	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 add	aux
3	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 Motherwell	mark
5	Motherwell	Motherwell	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 add	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	15 note	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 note	nmod:poss
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 Minstrelsy	punct
9	Minstrelsy	Minstrelsy	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 note	compound
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 Minstrelsy	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 xiv	punct
12	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 xiv	compound
13	xiv	xiv	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Minstrelsy	appos
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 Minstrelsy	punct
15	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 add	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 testifies	punct
17	testifies	testify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 add	parataxis
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 extant	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 story	det
20	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 extant	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 extant	cop
22	still	still	ADV	_	23 extant	advmod
23	extant	extant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 testifies	ccomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 nursery	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 nursery	det
26	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 extant	obl
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 time	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 time	det
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 nursery	nmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wrote	nsubj
31	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 time	acl:relcl
32	(	(	PUNCT	_	33 1828	punct
33	1828	1828	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 wrote	obj
34	)	)	PUNCT	_	33 1828	punct
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 add	punct
36	]	]	PUNCT	_	3 add	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	may	I	Motherwell	Motherwell's Minstrelsy note			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motherwell=Patient
2	testify speech: other	present						vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the story		the nursery at the time	still	extant property	tree rules
4	write	past	Motherwell	1828				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1828=Theme
5	note		Motherwell					nom note «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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