More English Fairy Tales, LXXIII. Rushen Coatie, sentence 10

_--Miss Cox's volume gives no less than 113 variants of the pure type of Cinderella--her type A. "Cinderella, or the Fortunate Marriage of a Despised Scullery-maid by Aid of an _Animal_ God-mother through the Test of a Slipper"--such might be the explanatory title of a chap-book dealing with the pure type of Cinderella.

Who acts: _, chap book, pure type, volume · What happens: give, despise, be, deal, vary, type · To what, where: less, such explanatory title, Cinderella

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXIII. Rushen Coatie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_, chap book, pure type, volume), 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	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 gives	nsubj
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 gives	punct
3	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 volume	nmod:poss
4	Cox	Cox	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Miss	flat
5	's	's	PART	_	3 Miss	case
6	volume	volume	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gives	nsubj
7	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	no	no	ADV	_	9 less	advmod
9	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 gives	obj
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 variants	case
11	113	113	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 variants	nummod
12	variants	variant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 less	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 type	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 type	det
15	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 type	amod
16	type	type	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 variants	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Cinderella	case
18	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 type	nmod
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 Cinderella	punct
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 type	nmod:poss
21	type	type	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Cinderella	nsubj
22	A.	A.	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 type	appos
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Cinderella	punct
24	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 gives	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Marriage	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 Marriage	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Marriage	det
28	Fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Marriage	amod
29	Marriage	Marriage	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 gives	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	35 maid	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 maid	det
32	Despised	despise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 maid	amod
33	Scullery	scullery	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 maid	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 Scullery	punct
35	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Marriage	nmod
36	by	by	ADP	_	37 Aid	case
37	Aid	Aid	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 maid	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 Animal	case
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 Animal	det
40	_	_	PUNCT	_	41 Animal	punct
41	Animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Aid	nmod
42	_	_	PUNCT	_	45 mother	punct
43	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 mother	compound
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 God	punct
45	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Marriage	conj
46	through	through	ADP	_	48 Test	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Test	det
48	Test	Test	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 mother	nmod
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 Slipper	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 Slipper	det
51	Slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 mother	nmod
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 Slipper	punct
53	--	--	PUNCT	_	59 title	punct
54	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 title	amod
55	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 title	aux
56	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	59 title	cop
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 title	det
58	explanatory	explanatory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 title	amod
59	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 Slipper	conj
60	of	of	ADP	_	64 book	case
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	64 book	det
62	chap	chap	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 book	compound
63	-	-	PUNCT	_	62 chap	punct
64	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 title	nmod
65	dealing	deal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	64 book	acl
66	with	with	ADP	_	69 type	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 type	det
68	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 type	amod
69	type	type	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 dealing	obl
70	of	of	ADP	_	71 Cinderella	case
71	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	Number=Sing	69 type	nmod
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	present	_	less	Cinderella obl	tree rules
2	despise in a quote	participle				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	might	_ not said here	the such explanatory title	of a chap book	tree rules
4	deal	gerund	a chap book not said here		with the pure type of Cinderella	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with type=Theme
5	vary		the pure type of Cinderella			nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent
6	type			Cinderella		nom type «cognition transitive»: of=patient
7	type		volume			nom type «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
8	type			Cinderella		nom type «cognition 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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