English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 8

But as he confesses that these are his own improvements on the tailor's narrative I have eliminated them.

Who acts: Jamieson, these, I · What happens: confess, be, eliminate · To what, where: own improvements, narrative, improvements

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 (Jamieson, these, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 confesses	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 confesses	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 confesses	nsubj
4	confesses	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 improvements	mark
6	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 improvements	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 improvements	cop
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 improvements	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 improvements	amod
10	improvements	improvement	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 confesses	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	15 narrative	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tailor	det
13	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 narrative	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 tailor	case
15	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 improvements	nmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 eliminated	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 eliminated	aux
18	eliminated	eliminate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 narrative	acl:relcl
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 eliminated	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 confesses	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	confess	present	Jamieson			vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	these	Jamieson's own improvements	the tailor's narrative	tree rules
3	eliminate	present · perfect	I	improvements = improvement		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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