More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 48

[2] The introductory incidents vary somewhat.

Who acts: introductory incidents · What happens: vary

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (introductory incidents), 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	_	2 2	punct
2	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 vary	discourse
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 2	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 incidents	det
5	introductory	introductory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 incidents	amod
6	incidents	incident	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 vary	nsubj
7	vary	vary	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	7 vary	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 vary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vary	present	the introductory incidents					somewhat property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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