More English Fairy Tales, LXV. the Three Wishes, sentence 8
M. Bédier, as usual, denies the Indian origin, _Les Fabliaux_, pp.
Who acts: M. Bédier · What happens: deny · To what, where: Indian origin
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 (M. Bédier), 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 | M. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Bédier | compound |
| 2 | Bédier | Bédier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 denies | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 usual | punct |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 usual | case |
| 5 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Bédier | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bédier | punct |
| 7 | denies | deny | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 origin | det |
| 9 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 origin | amod |
| 10 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 denies | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pp | punct |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 pp | punct |
| 13 | Les | Les | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 pp | flat:foreign |
| 14 | Fabliaux | Fabliaux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Les | flat |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Les | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pp | punct |
| 17 | pp | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 denies | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 denies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deny | present | M. Bédier | the Indian origin | Les pp obl | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent origin=Eventuality |
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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