More English Fairy Tales, LXXI. the King of England, sentence 9

_--The tale is scarcely a good example for Mr. Hindes Groome's contention (in _Transactions Folk-Lore Congress_) for the diffusion of all folk-tales by means of gypsies as _colporteurs_.

Who acts: tale, Hindes · What happens: be, mean, contend, diffuse · To what, where: good example, folk tales

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 (tale, Hindes), 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	_	35 means	punct
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 example	punct
3	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tale	det
4	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 example	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 example	cop
6	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	9 example	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 example	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 example	amod
9	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 _	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	15 contention	case
11	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Hindes	nmod:desc
12	Hindes	Hindes	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 contention	nmod:poss
13	Groome	Groome	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Hindes	flat
14	's	's	PART	_	12 Hindes	case
15	contention	contention	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 example	nmod
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 Congress	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 Transactions	case
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 in	punct
19	Transactions	Transaction	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 Congress	obl
20	Folk	Folk	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Lore	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 Folk	punct
22	Lore	Lore	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Congress	compound
23	Congress	Congress	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 contention	appos
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	23 Congress	punct
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 Congress	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 diffusion	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 diffusion	det
28	diffusion	diffusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 contention	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 tales	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 tales	det
31	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tales	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 folk	punct
33	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 diffusion	nmod
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 means	case
35	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 gypsies	case
37	gypsies	gypsy	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 means	obl
38	as	as	ADP	_	40 colporteurs	case
39	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 colporteurs	amod
40	colporteurs	colporteur	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 gypsies	nmod
41	_	_	PUNCT	_	40 colporteurs	punct
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the tale	a good example	for Hindes Mr.'s contention for the diffusion of all folk tales; scarcely property	tree rules
2	mean	present			of gypsies as _ colporteurs	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	contend		Hindes Mr.		for the diffusion of all folk tales	nom contention «communication intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl
4	diffuse			all folk tales		nom diffusion «process transitive»: of=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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