More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 16
There is every indication that they form but a scanty survival of the whole _corpus_ of such tales which must have existed in this country.
Who acts: indication, TALES, such tales · What happens: be, form, exist, survive · To what, where: country, whole _ corpus
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (indication, TALES, such tales), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 indication | det |
| 4 | indication | indication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 form | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 form | nsubj |
| 7 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | advcl |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 survival | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 survival | det |
| 10 | scanty | scanty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 survival | amod |
| 11 | survival | survival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 form | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 corpus | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 corpus | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 corpus | amod |
| 15 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 corpus | compound |
| 16 | corpus | corpus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 survival | nmod |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 tales | punct |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 tales | case |
| 19 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tales | amod |
| 20 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 corpus | nmod |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 existed | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 existed | aux |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 existed | aux |
| 24 | existed | exist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 tales | acl:relcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 country | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 country | det |
| 27 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 existed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | every indication | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | form | present | TALES = tale | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | exist | must · perfect | such tales | this country | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location | ||||
| 4 | survive | the whole _ corpus of such tales | nom survival «state transitive»: of=patient |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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