More English Fairy Tales, LXVI. the Buried Moon, sentence 6
_--The tale is noteworthy as being distinctly mythical in character, and yet collected within the last ten years from one of the English peasantry.
Who acts: tale · What happens: be, collect · To what, where: character
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVI. the Buried Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 noteworthy | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 noteworthy | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tale | det |
| 4 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 noteworthy | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 noteworthy | cop |
| 6 | noteworthy | noteworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 mythical | mark |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 mythical | cop |
| 9 | distinctly | distinctly | ADV | _ | 10 mythical | advmod |
| 10 | mythical | mythical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 noteworthy | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 character | case |
| 12 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mythical | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 collected | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 collected | cc |
| 15 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 16 collected | advmod |
| 16 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 noteworthy | parataxis |
| 17 | within | within | ADP | _ | 21 years | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 years | det |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 years | amod |
| 20 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 years | nummod |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 collected | obl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 one | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 years | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 peasantry | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 peasantry | det |
| 26 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 peasantry | amod |
| 27 | peasantry | peasantry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 one | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 noteworthy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the tale | noteworthy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | the tale not said here | character | distinctly, mythical property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | collect | participle | yet; year | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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