English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 43
All this suggests that this is a very early and common form of narrative.
Who acts: this · What happens: suggest, be · To what, where: early form · 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 (this), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 this | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 suggests | nsubj |
| 3 | suggests | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 form | mark |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 form | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 form | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 form | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 early | advmod |
| 9 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 form | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 common | cc |
| 11 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 early | conj |
| 12 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suggests | ccomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 narrative | case |
| 14 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 form | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suggests | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | present | this | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | this | a early form | of narrative | tree rules |
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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