More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 50
The remaining three enable us, however, to restore with some confidence the _Ur-_Cinderella in English somewhat as follows: _Helpful animal given by dying mother--Ill-treated heroine--Menial heroine--cornucopia--Spy on heroine--Slaying by helpful animal--Tasks--Revivified bones_.
What happens: remain, restore, follow, give, die, treat · To what, where: three enable, _ Ur, Helpful animal, mother
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 remaining | det |
| 2 | remaining | remain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 restore | advcl |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 enable | nummod |
| 4 | enable | enable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 remaining | obj |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 enable | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 restore | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 restore | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 restore | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 restore | mark |
| 10 | restore | restore | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 confidence | case |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 confidence | det |
| 13 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 restore | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Ur | det |
| 15 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Ur | compound |
| 16 | Ur | Ur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 restore | obj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ur | punct |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 Cinderella | punct |
| 19 | Cinderella | cinderella | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 restore | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 English | case |
| 21 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Cinderella | nmod |
| 22 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 24 follows | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 follows | mark |
| 24 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 restore | advcl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 animal | punct |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 animal | punct |
| 27 | Helpful | helpful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 animal | amod |
| 28 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 restore | parataxis |
| 29 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 animal | acl |
| 30 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 31 dying | mark |
| 31 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 given | advcl |
| 32 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dying | obj |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 heroine | punct |
| 34 | Ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 heroine | amod |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 Ill | punct |
| 36 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 heroine | amod |
| 37 | heroine | heroine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 animal | conj |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 40 heroine | punct |
| 39 | Menial | menial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 heroine | amod |
| 40 | heroine | heroine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 heroine | appos |
| 41 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 42 cornucopia | punct |
| 42 | cornucopia | cornucopia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 heroine | conj |
| 43 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 44 Spy | punct |
| 44 | Spy | spy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 animal | conj |
| 45 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 heroine | case |
| 46 | heroine | heroine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 Spy | nmod |
| 47 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 48 Slaying | punct |
| 48 | Slaying | slay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 restore | advcl |
| 49 | by | by | ADP | _ | 51 animal | case |
| 50 | helpful | helpful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 animal | amod |
| 51 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 Slaying | obl |
| 52 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 53 Tasks | punct |
| 53 | Tasks | task | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 animal | conj |
| 54 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 56 bones | punct |
| 55 | Revivified | revivify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 56 bones | amod |
| 56 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 animal | conj |
| 57 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 48 Slaying | punct |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 restore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | gerund | three enable | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme enable=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | restore | to-infinitive | the _ Ur | with some confidence; Cinderella in English obl; however property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent ur=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | present | somewhat property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give | participle | Helpful animal and Ill treated heroine and Spy on heroine not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | die | gerund | mother | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | treat | participle | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | slay | gerund | by helpful animal and Tasks and Revivified bones | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | revivify | participle | 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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