English Fairy Tales, XXXII. the Strange Visitor, sentence 4

The prosaic-minded may substitute “Up-late-and-little-food.”

Who acts: prosaic minded · What happens: substitute

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 (prosaic minded), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 minded	det
2	prosaic	prosaic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 minded	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 prosaic	punct
4	minded	minded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 substitute	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 substitute	aux
6	substitute	substitute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 late	punct
8	Up	up	ADV	_	10 late	advmod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Up	punct
10	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 substitute	parataxis
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 food	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 food	cc
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 and	punct
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 food	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 little	punct
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 late	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 substitute	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 substitute	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	substitute	may	the prosaic minded						tree rules

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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