More English Fairy Tales, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham, sentence 16
_--The artificial character of the incident is sufficient to prevent its having occurred in reality or to more than one inventive imagination.
Who acts: artificial character, character · What happens: be, prevent, have, occur · To what, where: reality
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 (artificial character, character), 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 | _ | 10 sufficient | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 sufficient | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 character | det |
| 4 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 character | amod |
| 5 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sufficient | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 incident | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 incident | det |
| 8 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 character | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sufficient | cop |
| 10 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 prevent | mark |
| 12 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sufficient | advcl |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 having | nsubj |
| 14 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 prevent | ccomp |
| 15 | occurred | occur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 having | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 reality | case |
| 17 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 occurred | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 imagination | cc |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 imagination | case |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 22 one | advmod |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 more | fixed |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 imagination | nummod |
| 23 | inventive | inventive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 imagination | amod |
| 24 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reality | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sufficient | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the artificial character of the incident | sufficient property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prevent | to-infinitive | the artificial character of the incident not said here | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | have | gerund | character | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | occur | participle | character not said here | reality or one inventive imagination | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in reality=Location |
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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