More English Fairy Tales, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham, sentence 13
Cowell, who gives the passage from Fungerus in a special paper on the subject in the _Journal of Philology_, vi., 189-95, points out that the same story occurs in the _Masnávi_ of the Persian port Jalaluddin, whose _floruit_ is 1260 A.D.
Who acts: Cowell, same story, floruit _ · What happens: give, point out, occur, be · To what, where: passage, Fungerus, Masnávi, 1260
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cowell, same story, floruit _), 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 | Cowell | Cowell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gives | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gives | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 gives | nsubj |
| 4 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 passage | det |
| 6 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gives | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Fungerus | case |
| 8 | Fungerus | Fungerus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 passage | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 paper | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 paper | det |
| 11 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 paper | amod |
| 12 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passage | nmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 subject | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 subject | det |
| 15 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 paper | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Journal | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Journal | det |
| 18 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Journal | compound |
| 19 | Journal | Journal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 subject | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Philology | case |
| 21 | Philology | philology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Journal | nmod |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 paper | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 vi | punct |
| 24 | vi | vi | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 paper | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gives | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 189-95 | punct |
| 27 | 189-95 | 189-95 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 gives | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 points | punct |
| 29 | points | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gives | conj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 points | compound:prt |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 occurs | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 story | det |
| 33 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 story | amod |
| 34 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 occurs | nsubj |
| 35 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 points | advcl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 Masnávi | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Masnávi | det |
| 38 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 Masnávi | punct |
| 39 | Masnávi | Masnávi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 occurs | obl |
| 40 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 Masnávi | punct |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 port | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 port | det |
| 43 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 port | compound |
| 44 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 _ | obl |
| 45 | Jalaluddin | Jalaluddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 port | appos |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 1260 | punct |
| 47 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 50 _ | nmod:poss |
| 48 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 50 _ | punct |
| 49 | floruit | floruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 _ | compound |
| 50 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 1260 | nsubj |
| 51 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 1260 | cop |
| 52 | 1260 | 1260 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 45 Jalaluddin | list |
| 53 | A.D | A.D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 1260 | nmod:unmarked |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Cowell | the passage | Fungerus | in a special paper on the subject in the _ Journal of Philology; 189-95 obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Theme | ||
| 2 | point out | present | Cowell not said here | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | occur | present | the same story | the Masnávi | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in masnávi=Location | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | floruit _ | 1260 | A.D nmod:unmarked | 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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