More English Fairy Tales, LXXIII. Rushen Coatie, sentence 2
_--I have concocted this English, or rather Scotch, Cinderella from the various versions given in Miss Cox's remarkable collection of 345 variants of _Cinderella_ (Folk-Lore Society, 1892); see _Parallels_ for an enumeration of those occurring in the British Isles.
Who acts: I, Cinderella · What happens: concoct, give, see, occur, vary, enumerate · To what, where: English, various versions, remarkable collection, Parallels, British Isles, those
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 (I, Cinderella), 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 | _ | 5 concocted | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 concocted | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 concocted | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 concocted | aux |
| 5 | concocted | concoct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 English | det |
| 7 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 concocted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Scotch | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 Scotch | cc |
| 10 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 11 Scotch | advmod |
| 11 | Scotch | Scotch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 English | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Cinderella | punct |
| 13 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 English | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 versions | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 versions | det |
| 16 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 versions | amod |
| 17 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 concocted | obl |
| 18 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 versions | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 collection | case |
| 20 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Cox | compound |
| 21 | Cox | Cox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 collection | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Cox | case |
| 23 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 collection | amod |
| 24 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 given | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 variants | case |
| 26 | 345 | 345 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 variants | nummod |
| 27 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 collection | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Cinderella | case |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 of | punct |
| 30 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 variants | nmod |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 concocted | punct |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 Society | punct |
| 33 | Folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Society | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 Folk | punct |
| 35 | Lore | Lore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Society | compound |
| 36 | Society | Society | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 concocted | obl:agent |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 1892 | punct |
| 38 | 1892 | 1892 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 Society | list |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 Society | punct |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 see | punct |
| 41 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 concocted | conj |
| 42 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 43 Parallels | punct |
| 43 | Parallels | parallel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 see | obj |
| 44 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 43 Parallels | punct |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 enumeration | case |
| 46 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 enumeration | det |
| 47 | enumeration | enumeration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 see | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 those | case |
| 49 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 47 enumeration | nmod |
| 50 | occurring | occur | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 49 those | acl |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 Isles | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 Isles | det |
| 53 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 Isles | amod |
| 54 | Isles | Isle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 50 occurring | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 concocted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | concoct | present · perfect | I | this English or Scotch and Cinderella | the various versions | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent english=Result from version=Material | |||
| 2 | give | participle | the various versions not said here | Miss Cox's remarkable collection of 345 variants of Cinderella | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | I not said here | Parallels | for a enumeration of those | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parallel=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | occur | gerund | the British Isles | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in isle=Location | |||||
| 5 | vary | Cinderella | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | enumerate | those | nom enumeration «communication 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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