More English Fairy Tales, LXVII. a Son of Adam, sentence 11
But the theological basis of the story shows clearly that it was originally a monkish invention and came thence among the folk.
Who acts: theological basis, basis · What happens: show, be, come · To what, where: monkish invention, folk
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 (theological basis, basis), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 shows | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 basis | det |
| 3 | theological | theological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 basis | amod |
| 4 | basis | basis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shows | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 basis | nmod |
| 8 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 8 shows | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 invention | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 invention | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 invention | cop |
| 13 | originally | originally | ADV | _ | 16 invention | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 invention | det |
| 15 | monkish | monkish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 invention | amod |
| 16 | invention | invention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shows | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 invention | conj |
| 19 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | among | among | ADP | _ | 22 folk | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 folk | det |
| 22 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | the theological basis of the story | clearly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | basis | a monkish invention | originally property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come | past | basis not said here | the folk | thence property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among folk=Location |
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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