English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 53

In “Childe Rowland” we have the nearest example to such protoplasm, and it is not difficult to see how it could have been shortened into a ballad or reduced to a prose folk-tale pure and simple.

Who acts: we · What happens: have, not be, see, shorten, reduce · To what, where: nearest example, Childe, example, ballad, prose folk tale · 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 (we), 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	_	3 Childe	case
2	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 Childe	punct
3	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 have	obl
4	Rowland	Rowland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Childe	flat
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 Childe	punct
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 example	det
9	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 example	amod
10	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 protoplasm	case
12	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 protoplasm	amod
13	protoplasm	protoplasm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 example	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 difficult	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 difficult	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 difficult	expl
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 difficult	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 difficult	advmod
19	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 have	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 see	mark
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 difficult	csubj
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 shortened	advmod
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 shortened	nsubj:pass
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 shortened	aux
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 shortened	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 shortened	aux:pass
27	shortened	shorten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 see	ccomp
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 ballad	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 ballad	det
30	ballad	ballad	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shortened	obl
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 reduced	cc
32	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 shortened	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	38 tale	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 tale	det
35	prose	prose	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 tale	compound
36	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 tale	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 folk	punct
38	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 reduced	obl
39	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 tale	amod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 simple	cc
41	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 pure	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	we	the nearest example	Childe	to such protoplasm	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent example=Patient
2	not is	present	we not said here			difficult property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	shorten	could · perfect · passive		example	a ballad		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	reduce	participle				to a prose folk tale goal	vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer to tale=Goal

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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