English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 55

I refer to the recently published work of Mr. D. MacRitchie, “The Testimony of Tradition” (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.)--_i.e._, of tradition about the fairies and the rest.

Who acts: I, D. · What happens: refer, publish, work

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, D.), 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	2 refer	nsubj
2	refer	refer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	7 work	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 work	det
5	recently	recently	ADV	_	6 published	advmod
6	published	publish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 work	amod
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 refer	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 D.	case
9	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 D.	nmod:desc
10	D.	D.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 work	nmod
11	MacRitchie	MacRitchie	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 D.	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Testimony	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 Testimony	punct
14	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Testimony	det
15	Testimony	Testimony	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 D.	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Tradition	case
17	Tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Testimony	nmod
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 Tradition	punct
19	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 Paul	punct
20	Kegan	Kegan	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Paul	compound
21	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Tradition	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Trench	punct
23	Trench	Trench	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Paul	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Trübner	punct
25	Trübner	Trübner	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Paul	conj
26	&	&	CCONJ	_	27 Co.	cc
27	Co.	co.	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Paul	conj
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 Paul	punct
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 Testimony	punct
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 refer	discourse
31	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	_	32 _	advmod
32	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 refer	discourse
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 tradition	punct
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 tradition	case
35	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 refer	parataxis
36	about	about	ADP	_	38 fairies	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 fairies	det
38	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 tradition	nmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 rest	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 rest	det
41	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fairies	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 refer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	refer	present	I	to the published work of D. Mr.	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to work=Co-Theme
2	publish	participle		recently property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	work		D. Mr.		nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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