More English Fairy Tales, XLVI. the Golden Ball, sentence 10

Capture and imprisonment are frequently the gruesome _motif_ of children's games, as in "Prisoner's base."

Who acts: Capture · What happens: be · To what, where: gruesome _ motif

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVI. the Golden Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Capture), 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	Capture	capture	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 motif	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 imprisonment	cc
3	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Capture	conj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 motif	cop
5	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	9 motif	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 motif	det
7	gruesome	gruesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 motif	amod
8	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 motif	amod
9	motif	motif	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 games	punct
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 games	case
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 games	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 children	case
14	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 motif	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 base	punct
16	as	as	ADP	_	21 base	case
17	in	in	ADP	_	21 base	case
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 base	punct
19	Prisoner	Prisoner	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 base	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 Prisoner	case
21	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 motif	appos
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 base	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 base	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Capture and imprisonment	the gruesome _ motif and children's games				frequently 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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