More English Fairy Tales, LXV. the Three Wishes, sentence 13
_, that the Phædrine form is ultimately to be derived from India, and there can be little doubt that all the other variants, which are only variations on one idea, and that an absurdly incongruous one, were derived from India in the last resort.
Who acts: other variants, little doubt · What happens: be, derive · To what, where: Phædrine form, India, little doubt, variations, one idea, other variants
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXV. the Three Wishes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other variants, 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 derived | punct |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 derived | punct |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 derived | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 form | det |
| 5 | Phædrine | Phædrine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 form | compound |
| 6 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 derived | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 derived | cop |
| 8 | ultimately | ultimately | ADV | _ | 11 derived | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 derived | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 derived | aux:pass |
| 11 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 India | case |
| 13 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 derived | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 doubt | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 be | cc |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 be | expl |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 be | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 doubt | cop |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 doubt | amod |
| 20 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 derived | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 derived | mark |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 variants | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 variants | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 variants | amod |
| 25 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 derived | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 variations | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 variations | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 variations | cop |
| 29 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 variations | advmod |
| 30 | variations | variation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 variants | conj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 idea | case |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 idea | nummod |
| 33 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 variations | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 one | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 one | cc |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 one | mark |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 one | det |
| 38 | absurdly | absurdly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 one | amod |
| 39 | incongruous | incongruous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 one | amod |
| 40 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 variants | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 variants | punct |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 derived | aux:pass |
| 43 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 doubt | acl |
| 44 | from | from | ADP | _ | 45 India | case |
| 45 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 derived | obl |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 resort | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 resort | det |
| 48 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 resort | amod |
| 49 | resort | resort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 derived | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 derived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · passive | the Phædrine form | India | derive, ultimately property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | little doubt | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | all other variants and variations and a absurdly incongruous one | variations | one idea | tree rules | |||
| 4 | derive | past · passive | little doubt not said here | all other variants and variations and a absurdly incongruous one | India | in the last resort | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from india=Material |
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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