More English Fairy Tales, XLVII. My Own Self, sentence 14
The fact of Continental parallels disposes of the possibility of its being a merely local legend.
What happens: be
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVII. My Own Self. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 fact | det |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 disposes | case |
| 4 | Continental | continental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 disposes | amod |
| 5 | parallels | parallel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 disposes | compound |
| 6 | disposes | dispose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fact | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 possibility | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 possibility | det |
| 9 | possibility | possibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 disposes | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 legend | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 legend | nmod:poss |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 legend | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 legend | det |
| 14 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 15 local | advmod |
| 15 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 legend | amod |
| 16 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 possibility | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fact | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | of possibility's local legend | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/38/14/