English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 83

Finally, there are a couple of words in the narrative that deserve a couple of words of explanation: “Widershins” is probably, as Mr. Batten suggests, analogous to the German “wider Schein,” against the appearance of the sun, “counter-clockwise” as the mathematicians say--_i.e._, W., S., E., N., instead of with the sun and the hands of a clock; why it should have an unspelling influence is hard to say.

Who acts: couple, narrative, Batten, mathematicians · What happens: be, deserve, say, have, word · To what, where: couple, unspelling influence, explanation · 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 (couple, narrative, Batten, mathematicians), 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	Finally	finally	ADV	_	4 are	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Finally	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 are	expl
4	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 couple	det
6	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 are	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 words	case
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 couple	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 narrative	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 narrative	det
11	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 words	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 deserve	nsubj
13	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 narrative	acl:relcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 couple	det
15	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 deserve	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 words	case
17	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 couple	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 explanation	case
19	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 words	nmod
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 Widershins	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 Widershins	punct
22	Widershins	Widershin	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 couple	appos
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 Widershins	punct
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 suggests	cop
25	probably	probably	ADV	_	30 suggests	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 suggests	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 suggests	mark
28	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Batten	nmod:desc
29	Batten	Batten	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 suggests	nsubj
30	suggests	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 couple	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 analogous	punct
32	analogous	analogous	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 suggests	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	38 Schein	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Schein	det
35	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Schein	amod
36	“	"	PUNCT	_	38 Schein	punct
37	wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 Schein	amod
38	Schein	Schein	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 analogous	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 analogous	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 analogous	punct
41	against	against	ADP	_	43 appearance	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 appearance	det
43	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 suggests	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 sun	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 sun	det
46	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 appearance	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 say	punct
48	“	"	PUNCT	_	49 counter-clockwise	punct
49	counter-clockwise	counter-clockwise	ADV	_	54 say	advmod
50	”	"	PUNCT	_	49 counter-clockwise	punct
51	as	as	SCONJ	_	54 say	mark
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 mathematicians	det
53	mathematicians	mathematician	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 say	nsubj
54	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 suggests	conj
55	--	--	PUNCT	_	60 W.	punct
56	_	_	PUNCT	_	57 i.e.	punct
57	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	_	60 W.	advmod
58	_	_	PUNCT	_	57 i.e.	punct
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 W.	punct
60	W.	W.	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 say	parataxis
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 S.	punct
62	S.	S.	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 W.	flat
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 E.	punct
64	E.	E.	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 W.	nmod:desc
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 N	punct
66	N	N	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 W.	conj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	60 W.	punct
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 sun	punct
69	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	73 sun	case
70	of	of	ADP	_	69 instead	fixed
71	with	with	ADP	_	73 sun	case
72	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 sun	det
73	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 say	obl
74	and	and	CCONJ	_	76 hands	cc
75	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	76 hands	det
76	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	73 sun	conj
77	of	of	ADP	_	79 clock	case
78	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	79 clock	det
79	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 hands	nmod
80	;	;	PUNCT	_	84 have	punct
81	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	84 have	advmod
82	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	84 have	nsubj
83	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	84 have	aux
84	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	89 hard	advcl
85	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	87 influence	det
86	unspelling	unspelling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	87 influence	amod
87	influence	influence	NOUN	Number=Sing	84 have	obj
88	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	89 hard	cop
89	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 say	ccomp
90	to	to	PART	_	91 say	mark
91	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	89 hard	xcomp
92	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	a couple of words in the narrative		there	finally property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	deserve	present	the narrative	a couple of words of explanation			tree rules
3	is	present	Batten Mr.	a couple of words in the narrative not said here		against the appearance of the sun; probably, suggest property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present	the mathematicians			instead the sun and the hands of a clock; counter-clockwise property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	have	should	couple	a unspelling influence			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent influence=Patient
6	is	present				hard property	tree rules
7	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	word			explanation			nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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