English Fairy Tales, XXVI. Mr. Fox., sentence 1

_Source_.--Contributed by Blakeway to Malone's Variorum Shakespeare, to illustrate Benedick's remark in _Much Ado about Nothing_ (I. i. 146): “Like the old tale, my Lord, 'It is not so, nor 'twas not so, but, indeed, God forbid it should be so;'” which clearly refers to the tale of Mr. Fox.

Who acts: Source, God, Benedick, Mr. Fox · What happens: contribute, illustrate, not be, forbid, be, refer · To what, where: Source, Variorum Shakespeare, remark, Much Ado · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVI. Mr. Fox.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Source, God, Benedick, Mr. Fox), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Source	punct
2	Source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 illustrate	nsubj
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 Contributed	punct
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	_	5 Contributed	punct
5	Contributed	contribute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Source	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 Blakeway	case
7	Blakeway	Blakeway	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Contributed	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 Shakespeare	case
9	Malone	Malone	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Shakespeare	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Malone	case
11	Variorum	Variorum	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Shakespeare	compound
12	Shakespeare	Shakespeare	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Contributed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 illustrate	punct
14	to	to	PART	_	15 illustrate	mark
15	illustrate	illustrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	Benedick	Benedick	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 remark	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Benedick	case
18	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 illustrate	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 Ado	case
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	19 in	punct
21	Much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Ado	amod
22	Ado	ado	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 illustrate	obl
23	about	about	ADP	_	24 Nothing	case
24	Nothing	Nothing	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Ado	nmod
25	_	_	PUNCT	_	24 Nothing	punct
26	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 I.	punct
27	I.	I.	X	Foreign=Yes	24 Nothing	appos
28	i.	i.	X	Foreign=Yes	27 I.	flat:foreign
29	146	146	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 I.	flat
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 I.	punct
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 tale	punct
32	“	"	PUNCT	_	36 tale	punct
33	Like	like	ADP	_	36 tale	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 tale	det
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 tale	amod
36	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 illustrate	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Lord	punct
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 Lord	nmod:poss
39	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 tale	appos
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 tale	punct
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	45 so	punct
42	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 so	nsubj
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 so	cop
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 so	advmod
45	so	so	ADV	_	36 tale	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 twas	punct
47	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	49 twas	cc
48	'	'	PUNCT	_	49 twas	punct
49	twas	twa	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 so	conj
50	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 so	advmod
51	so	so	ADV	_	49 twas	advmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 forbid	punct
53	but	but	CCONJ	_	58 forbid	cc
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 but	punct
55	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	58 forbid	advmod
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 indeed	punct
57	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 forbid	nsubj
58	forbid	forbid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 twas	parataxis
59	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 so	nsubj
60	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 so	aux
61	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	62 so	cop
62	so	so	ADV	_	58 forbid	parataxis
63	;	;	PUNCT	_	68 refers	punct
64	'	'	PUNCT	_	68 refers	punct
65	”	"	PUNCT	_	64 '	punct
66	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	68 refers	nsubj
67	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	68 refers	advmod
68	refers	refer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 forbid	conj
69	to	to	ADP	_	71 tale	case
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 tale	det
71	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 refers	obl
72	of	of	ADP	_	74 Fox	case
73	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	74 Fox	compound
74	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 tale	nmod
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 illustrate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	contribute	participle		Source not said here	Malone's Variorum Shakespeare		by Blakeway	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to shakespeare=Recipient
2	illustrate	to-infinitive	Source	Benedick's remark		Much Ado about Nothing		vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remark=Destination
3	not is in a quote	present	Source				so property	tree rules
4	forbid in a quote	infinitive	God				indeed property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
5	is in a quote	should	Source				so property	tree rules
6	refer	present					to the tale of Mr. Fox; clearly property	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to tale=Co-Theme
7	remark		Benedick					nom remark «communication transitive»: poss=agent
8	tell		Mr. Fox					nom tale «communication 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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