More English Fairy Tales, LXXI. the King of England, sentence 10

This is merely a matter of evidence, and of evidence there is singularly little, though it is indeed curious that one of Campbell's best equipped informants should turn out to be a gypsy.

Who acts: This, little, tale, one · What happens: be, equip, turn out · To what, where: matter, gypsy

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXI. the King of England. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, little, tale, one), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 matter	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 matter	cop
3	merely	merely	ADV	_	5 matter	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 matter	det
5	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 evidence	case
7	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 matter	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 is	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 is	cc
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 evidence	case
11	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 is	obl
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 is	expl
13	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 matter	parataxis
14	singularly	singularly	ADV	_	15 little	advmod
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 is	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 curious	punct
17	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 curious	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 curious	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 curious	cop
20	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	21 curious	advmod
21	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 is	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 turn	mark
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 turn	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	29 informants	case
25	Campbell	Campbell	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 informants	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 Campbell	case
27	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 informants	amod
28	equipped	equip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 informants	amod
29	informants	informant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 one	nmod
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 turn	aux
31	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 curious	advcl
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 turn	compound:prt
33	to	to	PART	_	36 gypsy	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 gypsy	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 gypsy	det
36	gypsy	gypsy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 turn	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 matter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	This	a matter		of evidence; merely property	tree rules
2	be	present	little		there	of evidence	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	tale			curious, indeed property	tree rules
4	equip	participle					vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
5	turn out	should	one of Campbell's best equipped informants				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	to-infinitive	one of Campbell's best equipped informants not said here	a gypsy			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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