More English Fairy Tales, LXV. the Three Wishes, sentence 4
_--Perrault's _Trois Souhaits_ is the same tale, and Mr. Lang has shown in his edition of Perrault (pp. xlii.-li.) how widely spread is the theme throughout the climes and the ages.
Who acts: _, Lang, same tale · What happens: be, show, spread · To what, where: same tale, edition, theme
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 (_, Lang, same tale), 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 | 12 tale | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 Souhaits | punct |
| 3 | Perrault | Perrault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Souhaits | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Perrault | case |
| 5 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Trois | compound |
| 6 | Trois | Trois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Souhaits | compound |
| 7 | Souhaits | Souhaits | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | conj |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 tale | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tale | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tale | amod |
| 12 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 theme | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shown | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 shown | cc |
| 15 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Lang | nmod:desc |
| 16 | Lang | Lang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 shown | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 shown | aux |
| 18 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 tale | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 edition | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 edition | nmod:poss |
| 21 | edition | edition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shown | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Perrault | case |
| 23 | Perrault | Perrault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 edition | nmod |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 pp | punct |
| 25 | pp | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Perrault | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 tale | punct |
| 27 | xlii | xlii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 li | compound |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 xlii | punct |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 li | punct |
| 30 | li | li | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tale | appos |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 li | punct |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 li | punct |
| 33 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 widely | advmod |
| 34 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 35 spread | advmod |
| 35 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 tale | advcl |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 theme | cop |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 theme | det |
| 38 | theme | theme | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 39 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 41 climes | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 climes | det |
| 41 | climes | clime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 theme | nmod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 ages | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 ages | det |
| 44 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 climes | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 theme | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | _ and Perrault's Trois Souhaits | the same tale | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | present · perfect | Lang Mr. | _'s edition of Perrault and pp | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | spread | participle | _ and Perrault's Trois Souhaits not said here | widely property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the same tale | the theme | throughout the climes and the ages | 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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