English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 54

The subject-matter of “Childe Rowland” has also claims on our attention especially with regard to recent views on the true nature and origin of elves, trolls, and fairies.

Who acts: subject matter, Childe, our · What happens: have, claim, matter, attend · To what, where: attention

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 (subject matter, Childe, our), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 matter	det
2	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 matter	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 subject	punct
4	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Childe	case
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 Childe	punct
7	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 matter	nmod
8	Rowland	Rowland	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Childe	flat
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 Childe	punct
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	also	also	ADV	_	12 claims	advmod
12	claims	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 has	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 attention	case
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 attention	nmod:poss
15	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 claims	obl
16	especially	especially	ADV	_	18 regard	advmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 regard	case
18	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 claims	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 views	case
20	recent	recent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 views	amod
21	views	view	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 regard	nmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 nature	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 nature	det
24	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 nature	amod
25	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 views	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 origin	cc
27	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 nature	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 elves	case
29	elves	elf	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 origin	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 trolls	punct
31	trolls	troll	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 elves	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fairies	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 fairies	cc
34	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 regard	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	the subject matter of Childe			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	claim speech: other	present	the subject matter of Childe not said here	our attention	with regard to recent views on the true nature and origin of elves and trolls and fairies	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	matter		Childe			nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent
4	attend		our			nom attention «cognition intransitive»: 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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