More English Fairy Tales, LXVII. a Son of Adam, sentence 10

Often they must have been derived from the folk of the period, and at first sight it might seem that we had found still extant among the folk the story that had been the original of Jacques de Vitry's _Exemplum_.

Who acts: it, we, story · What happens: derive, seem, find, be · To what, where: monks, folk, sight, original

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVII. a Son of Adam. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, we, story), 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	Often	often	ADV	_	6 derived	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 derived	nsubj:pass
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 derived	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 derived	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 derived	aux:pass
6	derived	derive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 folk	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 folk	det
9	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 derived	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 period	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 period	det
12	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 folk	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seem	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seem	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 sight	case
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 sight	advmod
17	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seem	obl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 seem	nsubj
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 seem	aux
20	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 derived	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 found	mark
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 found	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 found	aux
24	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 seem	ccomp
25	still	still	ADV	_	26 extant	advmod
26	extant	extant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 found	xcomp
27	among	among	ADP	_	29 folk	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 folk	det
29	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 found	obl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 story	det
31	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 folk	appos
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 original	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 original	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 original	cop
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 original	det
36	original	original	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 story	acl:relcl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 Jacques	case
38	Jacques	Jacques	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 original	nmod
39	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Jacques	flat
40	Vitry	Vitry	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 _	nmod:poss
41	's	's	PART	_	40 Vitry	case
42	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Jacques	conj
43	Exemplum	Exemplum	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 _	flat
44	_	_	PUNCT	_	24 found	punct
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 derived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	derive	must · perfect · passive		monks = monk	the folk of the period	often property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from folk=Material
2	seem	might	it		sight		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	find	past · perfect	we			among the folk; extant property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past · perfect	the story	the original		of Jacques and Vitry's _	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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