More English Fairy Tales, English Variants of Cinderella, sentence 57
_--In going over these various versions, the first and perhaps most striking thing that comes out is the substantial agreement of the variants in each _language_.
Who acts: thing, going · What happens: go, strike, come out, be · To what, where: various versions, thing, substantial agreement
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, English Variants of Cinderella. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, going), 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 | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 3 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 4 going | mark |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 agreement | csubj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 versions | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 versions | det |
| 7 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 versions | amod |
| 8 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 going | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 first | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 first | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 versions | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 striking | cc |
| 13 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 15 striking | advmod |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 striking | advmod |
| 15 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 first | conj |
| 16 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 striking | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 comes | nsubj |
| 18 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 thing | acl:relcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 comes | compound:prt |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 agreement | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 agreement | det |
| 22 | substantial | substantial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 agreement | amod |
| 23 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 variants | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 variants | det |
| 26 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 agreement | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 language | case |
| 28 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 language | det |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 language | punct |
| 30 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 variants | nmod |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 agreement | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 agreement | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | this various versions | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over version=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | strike | gerund | thing | perhaps property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come out | present | thing | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | going | the substantial agreement | of the variants in each language | 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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