More English Fairy Tales, XLIX. Yallery Brown, sentence 10

But the scrap of verse, especially in its original dialect, has such a folkish ring that it is probable he was only adapting a local legend to his own circumstances.

Who acts: scrap, it, informant · What happens: have, be, adapt · To what, where: folkish ring, local legend, own circumstances

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIX. Yallery Brown. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scrap, it, informant), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 has	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 scrap	det
3	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 has	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 verse	case
5	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scrap	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dialect	punct
7	especially	especially	ADV	_	11 dialect	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 dialect	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dialect	nmod:poss
10	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dialect	amod
11	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 verse	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 scrap	punct
13	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	17 ring	det:predet
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 ring	det
16	folkish	folkish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ring	amod
17	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 has	obj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 probable	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 probable	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 probable	cop
21	probable	probable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ring	nmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 adapting	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 adapting	aux
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 adapting	advmod
25	adapting	adapt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 probable	ccomp
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 legend	det
27	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 legend	amod
28	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 adapting	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 circumstances	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 circumstances	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 circumstances	amod
32	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 legend	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	the scrap of verse and scrap's original dialect	such folkish ring		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient
2	is	present	it		probable property	tree rules
3	adapt	past · progressive	informant	a local legend	to informant's own circumstances goal	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent legend=Patient to circumstance=Goal

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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