More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 26

Of these, thirty-eight are _märchen_ proper, _i.e._, tales with definite plot and evolution; ten are sagas or legends locating romantic stories in definite localities; no less than nineteen are drolls or comic anecdotes; four are cumulative stories: six beast tales; while ten are merely ingenious nonsense tales put together in such a form as to amuse children.

Who acts: thirty eight, legends, six beast tales · What happens: be, locate, not be, put together, amuse · To what, where: _ märchen, ten sagas, romantic stories, definite localities, nineteen, cumulative stories

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 (thirty eight, legends, six beast 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 these	case
2	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 eight	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 these	punct
4	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 eight	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 thirty	punct
6	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 stories	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 märchen	cop
8	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 märchen	amod
9	märchen	märchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eight	conj
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 eight	punct
11	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 eight	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eight	punct
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 eight	punct
14	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	_	6 eight	flat:foreign
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 eight	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tales	punct
17	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eight	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 plot	case
19	definite	definite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 plot	amod
20	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tales	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 evolution	cc
22	evolution	evolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 plot	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 sagas	punct
24	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 sagas	nummod
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 sagas	cop
26	sagas	saga	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eight	appos
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 legends	cc
28	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sagas	conj
29	locating	locate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 legends	acl
30	romantic	romantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 stories	amod
31	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 locating	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 localities	case
33	definite	definite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 localities	amod
34	localities	locality	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 locating	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 less	punct
36	no	no	ADV	_	37 less	advmod
37	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 sagas	conj
38	than	than	ADP	_	37 less	fixed
39	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 less	obl
40	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 drolls	cop
41	drolls	droll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 eight	conj
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 anecdotes	cc
43	comic	comic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 anecdotes	amod
44	anecdotes	anecdote	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 drolls	conj
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 eight	punct
46	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 eight	conj
47	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 stories	cop
48	cumulative	cumulative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 stories	amod
49	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
50	:	:	PUNCT	_	53 tales	punct
51	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 tales	nummod
52	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 tales	compound
53	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 tales	nsubj
54	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 ten	punct
55	while	while	SCONJ	_	56 ten	mark
56	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 tales	appos
57	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 tales	cop
58	merely	merely	ADV	_	59 ingenious	advmod
59	ingenious	ingenious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 tales	amod
60	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 tales	compound
61	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 stories	nmod
62	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	61 tales	acl
63	together	together	ADV	_	62 put	advmod
64	in	in	ADP	_	67 form	case
65	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	67 form	det:predet
66	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	67 form	det
67	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 put	obl
68	as	as	SCONJ	_	70 amuse	mark
69	to	to	PART	_	70 amuse	mark
70	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 put	advcl
71	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	70 amuse	obj
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	49 stories	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	thirty eight and _ märchen and tales with definite plot and evolution not said here	_ märchen			tree rules
2	is a	present		ten sagas or legends			tree rules
3	locate	gerund	legends not said here	romantic stories	definite localities		tree rules
4	not be			nineteen			tree rules
5	is	present	thirty eight and _ märchen and tales with definite plot and evolution not said here			droll property	tree rules
6	is a	present	thirty eight and _ märchen and tales with definite plot and evolution	cumulative stories			tree rules
7	is a	present	six beast tales	ingenious nonsense tales			tree rules
8	put together	participle		ingenious nonsense tales not said here	such form	together property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in form=Destination
9	amuse	to-infinitive		children			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer

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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