More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 32
The colloquial manner rarely rises to the dignified, and the essence of the folk-tale manner in English is colloquial.
Who acts: colloquial manner, essence · What happens: rise, dignify, be
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 (colloquial manner, essence), 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 | 3 manner | det |
| 2 | colloquial | colloquial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 manner | amod |
| 3 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rises | nsubj |
| 4 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 5 rises | advmod |
| 5 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 colloquial | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 colloquial | det |
| 8 | dignified | dignify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 colloquial | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 colloquial | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 colloquial | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 essence | det |
| 12 | essence | essence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 colloquial | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 manner | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 manner | det |
| 15 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tale | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 folk | punct |
| 17 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 manner | compound |
| 18 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 essence | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 English | case |
| 20 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 manner | nmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 colloquial | cop |
| 22 | colloquial | colloquial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rises | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | present | the colloquial manner | rarely property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dignify | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | the essence of the tale manner in English | to the dignified colloquial | 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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