More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 29
They think that a tale probably originated where it was found.
Who acts: friends, tale · What happens: think, originate, find · To what, where: truth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Ætat. XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends, tale), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 think | nsubj |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 originated | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tale | det |
| 5 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 originated | nsubj |
| 6 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 7 originated | advmod |
| 7 | originated | originate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 think | ccomp |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 found | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | aux:pass |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 originated | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | friends = friend | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | originate | past | a tale | probably property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | find | past · passive | truth | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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