More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 28

The legends are not of a very romantic kind, and the _märchen_ are often humorous in character.

Who acts: legends, märchen · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: character

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 (legends, märchen), 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 legends	det
2	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 kind	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 kind	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 kind	advmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 kind	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 kind	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 romantic	advmod
8	romantic	romantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kind	amod
9	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 humorous	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 humorous	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 märchen	det
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 märchen	punct
14	märchen	märchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 humorous	nsubj
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 märchen	punct
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 humorous	cop
17	often	often	ADV	_	18 humorous	advmod
18	humorous	humorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kind	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 character	case
20	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 humorous	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	the legends					of a romantic kind	tree rules
2	is	present	the märchen			character		humorous, often property	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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