English Fairy Tales, XXXII. the Strange Visitor, sentence 3

I have retained “Aih-late-wee-moul,” though I candidly confess I have not the slightest idea what it means; judging other children by myself, I do not think that makes the response less effective.

Who acts: I, Aih, idea, that · What happens: retain, moul, confess, have, mean, judge · To what, where: slightest idea, other children, response · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXII. the Strange Visitor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Aih, idea, that), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 retained	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 retained	aux
3	retained	retain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 moul	punct
5	Aih	Aih	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 moul	nsubj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Aih	punct
7	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 moul	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 late	punct
9	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 moul	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 wee	punct
11	moul	moul	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 retained	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 moul	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 moul	punct
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 confess	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 confess	nsubj
16	candidly	candidly	ADV	_	17 confess	advmod
17	confess	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 retained	advcl
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 confess	ccomp
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 idea	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 idea	det
22	slightest	slight	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 idea	amod
23	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 means	obj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 means	nsubj
26	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 idea	acl:relcl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 judging	punct
28	judging	judge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 retained	conj
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 children	amod
30	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 judging	obj
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 myself	case
32	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 judging	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 think	punct
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 think	nsubj
35	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 think	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 think	advmod
37	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 judging	conj
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 makes	nsubj
39	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 think	ccomp
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 response	det
41	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 makes	obj
42	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	43 effective	advmod
43	effective	effective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 makes	xcomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 retained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	retain	present · perfect	I			tree rules
2	moul in a quote		Aih			tree rules
3	confess	present	I		candidly property	vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	present	I	the slightest idea		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
5	mean	present	idea	the slightest idea		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
6	judge	gerund	I not said here	other children	by myself	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent child=Value
7	not think speech: other	present · do-support	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	make	present	that	the response	effective property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset response=Product

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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