More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 55

Perhaps this may be partly due to the fact that a larger proportion of the tales are of native manufacture.

Who acts: this, larger proportion · What happens: be · To what, where: fact

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 (this, larger proportion), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	9 fact	advmod
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 fact	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fact	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 fact	cop
5	partly	partly	ADV	_	9 fact	advmod
6	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	9 fact	case
7	to	to	ADP	_	6 due	fixed
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fact	det
9	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 manufacture	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 proportion	det
12	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 proportion	amod
13	proportion	proportion	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 manufacture	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 tales	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tales	det
16	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 proportion	nmod
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 manufacture	cop
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 manufacture	case
19	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 manufacture	amod
20	manufacture	manufacture	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fact	acl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fact	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	may	this					due the fact; partly, perhaps property	tree rules
2	is	present	a larger proportion of the tales	the fact not said here				of native manufacture	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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