More English Fairy Tales, L. the Three Feathers, sentence 4

_--The beginning is _à la_ Cupid and Psyche, on which Mr. Lang's monograph in the Carabas series is the classic authority.

Who acts: beginning · What happens: be · To what, where: classic authority

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, L. the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beginning), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 authority	punct
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 authority	punct
3	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beginning	det
4	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 authority	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 authority	cop
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 la	punct
7	à	à	ADP	_	8 la	case
8	la	la	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 authority	nsubj
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 Cupid	punct
10	Cupid	Cupid	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 la	flat:foreign
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Psyche	cc
12	Psyche	Psyche	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Cupid	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 monograph	punct
14	on	on	ADP	_	19 monograph	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 monograph	nsubj
16	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Lang	nmod:desc
17	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 monograph	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Lang	case
19	monograph	monograph	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Cupid	appos
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 series	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 series	det
22	Carabas	Carabas	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 series	compound
23	series	series	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 monograph	nmod
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 authority	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 authority	det
26	classic	classic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 authority	amod
27	authority	authority	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 authority	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the beginning	the classic authority					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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