More English Fairy Tales, LXI. the Blinded Giant, sentence 12

The incident is an instructive one, and I have therefore included it in this volume, though it is little more than an anecdote in its present shape.

Who acts: incident, I · What happens: be, include · To what, where: instructive one, incident, volume

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXI. the Blinded Giant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (incident, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 incident	det
2	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 one	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 one	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	instructive	instructive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 included	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 included	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 included	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 included	aux
11	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	12 included	advmod
12	included	include	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 one	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 included	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 volume	case
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 volume	det
16	volume	volume	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 included	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 more	punct
18	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 more	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 more	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 more	cop
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 more	obl:unmarked
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 one	parataxis
23	than	than	ADP	_	25 anecdote	case
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 anecdote	det
25	anecdote	anecdote	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 more	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 shape	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 shape	nmod:poss
28	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 shape	amod
29	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 anecdote	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the incident	a instructive one		tree rules
2	include	present · perfect	I	incident	in this volume goal; therefore property	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme in volume=Goal
3	is	present	incident		than a anecdote in incident's present shape; little obl:unmarked; more property	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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