English Fairy Tales, XLII. Master of All Masters., sentence 1

_Source_.--I have taken what suited me from a number of sources, which shows how wide-spread this quaint droll is in England: (i) In Mayhew, _London Poor_, iii.

Who acts: Mayhew, sources, quaint droll · What happens: take, suit, show, spread, be · To what, where: Source, me, number, spread England

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLII. Master of All Masters.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mayhew, sources, quaint droll), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Source	punct
2	Source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taken	nsubj:pass
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Source	punct
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	_	2 Source	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 taken	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 taken	aux
7	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 suited	nsubj
9	suited	suit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 taken	ccomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 suited	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 number	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 number	det
13	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 suited	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 sources	case
15	sources	source	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 number	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shows	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 shows	nsubj
18	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sources	acl:relcl
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 wide	advmod
20	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 spread	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 wide	punct
22	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 England	amod
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 droll	det
24	quaint	quaint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 droll	amod
25	droll	droll	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 England	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 England	cop
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 England	case
28	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 shows	obj
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 Mayhew	punct
30	(	(	PUNCT	_	31 i	punct
31	i	i	NUM	_	34 Mayhew	discourse
32	)	)	PUNCT	_	31 i	punct
33	In	in	ADP	_	34 Mayhew	case
34	Mayhew	Mayhew	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 taken	obl:agent
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Poor	punct
36	_	_	PUNCT	_	38 Poor	punct
37	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Poor	compound
38	Poor	Poor	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Mayhew	appos
39	_	_	PUNCT	_	38 Poor	punct
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 iii	punct
41	iii	III	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	34 Mayhew	list
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take	present · perfect · passive	Mayhew	Source		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent subject=Theme clause=Attribute
2	suit	past		me	a number of sources	tree rules
3	show	present	sources			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	spread	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	this quaint droll		spread England	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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