More English Fairy Tales, LXI. the Blinded Giant, sentence 9
There can be little doubt that the version is ultimately to be traced back to the Odyssey.
Who acts: little doubt · What happens: be · To what, where: version
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 (little doubt), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 be | expl |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 be | aux |
| 3 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 doubt | amod |
| 5 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 be | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 traced | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 version | det |
| 8 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 traced | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 traced | cop |
| 10 | ultimately | ultimately | ADV | _ | 13 traced | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 traced | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 traced | aux:pass |
| 13 | traced | trace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 doubt | acl:relcl |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 traced | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Odyssey | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Odyssey | det |
| 17 | Odyssey | Odyssey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 back | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | can | can | little doubt | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present · passive | little doubt not said here | the version | trace, ultimately 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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