More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 31

I consider the probability to lie in an origin elsewhere: I think it more likely than not that any tale found in a place was rather brought there than born there.

Who acts: I · What happens: consider, lie, think, find, not bring, bear · To what, where: probability, origin, tale, place · 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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 consider	nsubj
2	consider	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 probability	det
4	probability	probability	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 consider	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 lie	mark
6	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 consider	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 origin	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 origin	det
9	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lie	obl
10	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	6 lie	advmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 think	nsubj
13	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 consider	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 think	obj
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 likely	advmod
16	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 think	xcomp
17	than	than	SCONJ	_	28 brought	mark
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 brought	advmod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 brought	mark
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 tale	det
21	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brought	nsubj:pass
22	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 tale	acl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 place	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 place	det
25	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 found	obl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 brought	aux:pass
27	rather	rather	ADV	_	28 brought	advmod
28	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 likely	ccomp
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 brought	advmod
30	than	than	SCONJ	_	31 born	mark
31	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 brought	xcomp
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 born	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 consider	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	consider	present	I	the probability			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent probability=Attribute clause=Theme
2	lie	to-infinitive	I not said here		a origin	elsewhere property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in origin=Location
3	think speech: other	present	I	probability		likely property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
4	find	participle		any tale not said here	a place		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	not bring	past · passive		any tale	there		tree rules
6	bear	participle			there		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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