More English Fairy Tales, LIV. Gobborn Seer, sentence 12
_), formed the occasion for his first presentation of his now well-known hypothesis of the derivation of all folk-tales from India.
Who acts: Benfey · What happens: form, know, present · To what, where: occasion, known hypothesis
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LIV. Gobborn Seer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Benfey), 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 | _ | 4 formed | punct |
| 2 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 formed | punct |
| 4 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 occasion | det |
| 6 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 formed | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 presentation | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 presentation | nmod:poss |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 presentation | amod |
| 10 | presentation | presentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 formed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hypothesis | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hypothesis | nmod:poss |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 known | advmod |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 known | advmod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 well | punct |
| 16 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 hypothesis | amod |
| 17 | hypothesis | hypothesis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 presentation | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 derivation | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 derivation | det |
| 20 | derivation | derivation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hypothesis | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 tales | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 tales | det |
| 23 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tales | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 folk | punct |
| 25 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 derivation | nmod |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 India | case |
| 27 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 tales | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | past | the occasion | for Benfey's first presentation of Benfey's known hypothesis of the derivation of all folk tales from India | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent occasion=Result for presentation=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | now | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | present | Benfey | Benfey's known hypothesis of the derivation of all folk tales from India | nom presentation «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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