More English Fairy Tales, LXII. Scrapefoot, sentence 6

_--This remarkable variant raises the question whether Southey did anything more than transform Scrapefoot into his naughty old woman, who in her turn has been transformed by popular tradition into the naughty girl Silver-hair.

Who acts: _, Southey, popular tradition · What happens: raise, do, transform · To what, where: question, anything, naughty old woman, turn

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXII. Scrapefoot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_, Southey, popular tradition), 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	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 raises	nsubj
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	1 _	punct
3	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 variant	det
4	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 variant	amod
5	variant	variant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 raises	nsubj
6	raises	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 question	det
8	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 raises	obj
9	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	11 did	mark
10	Southey	Southey	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 did	nsubj
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 raises	advcl
12	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 did	obj
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 anything	amod
14	than	than	ADP	_	15 transform	case
15	transform	transform	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 more	obl
16	Scrapefoot	Scrapefoot	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 transform	appos
17	into	into	ADP	_	21 woman	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 woman	nmod:poss
19	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 did	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 transformed	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 transformed	nsubj:pass
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 turn	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 turn	nmod:poss
26	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 transformed	obl
27	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 transformed	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 transformed	aux:pass
29	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 woman	conj
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 tradition	case
31	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 tradition	amod
32	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 transformed	obl
33	into	into	ADP	_	39 hair	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 hair	det
35	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 hair	amod
36	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hair	compound
37	Silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hair	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 Silver	punct
39	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 transformed	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 raises	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	raise	present	_	the question			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Theme
2	do	past	Southey	anything		into Southey's naughty old woman	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
3	transform	present · perfect · passive	popular tradition	Southey's naughty old woman	variant's turn	into the naughty girl Silver hair result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Patient into hair=Result

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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