More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 43

In the course of the tale the chief thing to be noticed is the occurrence of rhymes in the prose narrative, tending to give the appearance of a _cante-fable_.

Who acts: chief thing · What happens: notice, be, tend, give · To what, where: occurrence, course, appearance

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 (chief thing), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 course	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 course	det
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 occurrence	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 tale	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tale	det
6	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 occurrence	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thing	det
8	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 occurrence	nsubj
10	to	to	PART	_	12 noticed	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 noticed	aux:pass
12	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 thing	acl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 occurrence	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 occurrence	det
15	occurrence	occurrence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 rhymes	case
17	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 occurrence	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 narrative	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 narrative	det
20	prose	prose	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 narrative	compound
21	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rhymes	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tending	punct
23	tending	tend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 occurrence	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 give	mark
25	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 tending	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 appearance	det
27	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	34 _	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 _	det
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	34 _	punct
31	cante	cante	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fable	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 cante	punct
33	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 _	compound
34	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 appearance	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 occurrence	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	notice	to-infinitive · passive	the chief thing not said here				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»
2	is a	present	the chief thing	the occurrence	the course	of the tale; of rhymes in the prose narrative	tree rules
3	tend	gerund	the chief thing not said here				tree rules
4	give	to-infinitive	the chief thing not said here	the appearance of a fable _			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Theme

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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