English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 34
I will therefore touch upon these points, reserving a more detailed examination for another occasion.
Who acts: I · What happens: touch, reserve · To what, where: detailed examination
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), 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 | 4 touch | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 touch | aux |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 touch | advmod |
| 4 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 points | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 points | det |
| 7 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 touch | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 reserving | punct |
| 9 | reserving | reserve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 touch | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 examination | det |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 detailed | advmod |
| 12 | detailed | detailed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 examination | amod |
| 13 | examination | examination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reserving | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 occasion | case |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 occasion | det |
| 16 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 examination | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | future | I | upon this points; therefore property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reserve | gerund | I not said here | a detailed examination | for another occasion | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent examination=Theme for occasion=Beneficiary |
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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