More English Fairy Tales, L. the Three Feathers, sentence 9
411-13, denies the Eastern origin of the _fabliau_, but in his Indiaphobia M. Bédier is _capable de tout_.
Who acts: 411-13 · What happens: deny, be · To what, where: Eastern origin, _ capable de tout, Indiaphobia
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 (411-13), 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 | 411-13 | 411-13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 denies | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 denies | punct |
| 3 | denies | deny | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 origin | det |
| 5 | Eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 origin | amod |
| 6 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 denies | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fabliau | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fabliau | det |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 fabliau | punct |
| 10 | fabliau | fabliau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 origin | nmod |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 fabliau | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tout | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 tout | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Indiaphobia | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 Indiaphobia | nmod:poss |
| 16 | Indiaphobia | Indiaphobia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 tout | obl |
| 17 | M. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Indiaphobia | flat |
| 18 | Bédier | Bédier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Indiaphobia | flat |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 tout | cop |
| 20 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tout | amod |
| 21 | capable | capable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tout | amod |
| 22 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tout | compound |
| 23 | tout | tout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 denies | parataxis |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 tout | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 denies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deny | present | 411-13 | the Eastern origin of the fabliau | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent origin=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | _ capable de tout | M.'s Indiaphobia | 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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