More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 27
The preponderance of the comic element is marked, and it is clear that humour is a characteristic of the English _folk_.
Who acts: humour · What happens: mark, be · To what, where: preponderance, characteristic
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 (humour), 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 | 2 preponderance | det |
| 2 | preponderance | preponderance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 marked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 element | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 element | det |
| 5 | comic | comic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 element | amod |
| 6 | element | element | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 preponderance | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 marked | aux:pass |
| 8 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 clear | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 clear | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 clear | expl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 clear | cop |
| 13 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 marked | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 characteristic | mark |
| 15 | humour | humour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 characteristic | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 characteristic | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 characteristic | det |
| 18 | characteristic | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 clear | ccomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 English | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 English | det |
| 21 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 characteristic | nmod |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 folk | punct |
| 23 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 characteristic | conj |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 clear | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | present · passive | the preponderance of the comic element | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 2 | is | present | clear property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | humour | a characteristic and folk | of the English | 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: «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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