English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 57

Mr. MacRitchie shows that in several instances traditions about trolls or “good people” have attached themselves to mounds, which have afterwards on investigation turned out to be evidently the former residence of men of smaller build than the mortals of to-day.

Who acts: MacRitchie, mounds · What happens: show, attach, have, turn out, be · To what, where: traditions, several instances, investigation, former residence · 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 (MacRitchie, mounds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 MacRitchie	nmod:desc
2	MacRitchie	MacRitchie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 attached	mark
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 instances	case
6	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 instances	amod
7	instances	instance	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 attached	obl
8	traditions	tradition	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 attached	nsubj:pass
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 trolls	case
10	trolls	troll	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 traditions	nmod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 people	cc
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 people	punct
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 people	amod
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 trolls	conj
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 people	punct
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 attached	aux
17	attached	attach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 shows	ccomp
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 attached	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 mounds	case
20	mounds	mound	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 attached	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 have	nsubj
23	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 mounds	acl:relcl
24	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	23 have	advmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 investigation	case
26	investigation	investigation	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	obl
27	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 investigation	acl
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 turned	compound:prt
29	to	to	PART	_	34 residence	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 residence	cop
31	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	34 residence	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 residence	det
33	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 residence	amod
34	residence	residence	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 turned	xcomp
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 men	case
36	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 residence	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 build	case
38	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 build	amod
39	build	build	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 men	nmod
40	than	than	ADP	_	42 mortals	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 mortals	det
42	mortals	mortal	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 build	nmod
43	of	of	ADP	_	46 day	case
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 day	case
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 to	punct
46	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 mortals	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	present	MacRitchie Mr.				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	attach	present · perfect · passive		traditions about trolls or good people	several instances	to mounds	tree rules
3	have	present	mounds		investigation	afterwards property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	turn out	participle		investigation not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	to-infinitive		the former residence		of men of smaller build than the mortals of day; evidently property	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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