English Fairy Tales, XXX. Mr. Miacca., sentence 3
This seemed to me to exceed the limits of _vraisemblance_ even for a folk-tale.
Who acts: This · What happens: seem, exceed · To what, where: me, limits
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXX. Mr. Miacca.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 exceed | mark |
| 6 | exceed | exceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 limits | det |
| 8 | limits | limit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 exceed | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 vraisemblance | case |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 of | punct |
| 11 | vraisemblance | vraisemblance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 limits | nmod |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 limits | punct |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 tale | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 tale | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tale | det |
| 16 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tale | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 folk | punct |
| 18 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exceed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | This | me | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | exceed | to-infinitive | This not said here | the limits of vraisemblance | for a folk tale | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot limit=Theme |
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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