More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 58
But the welding of the Sea Maiden ending on to the Cinderella formula is clearly a later and inartistic junction, and implies rather imperfect assimilation of the Cinderella formula.
Who acts: welding, ending, inartistic junction · What happens: end on, be, imply, weld, assimilate · To what, where: inartistic junction, imperfect assimilation, Sea Maiden, Cinderella formula
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 (welding, ending, inartistic junction), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 ending | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 welding | det |
| 3 | welding | welding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ending | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Maiden | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Maiden | det |
| 6 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Maiden | compound |
| 7 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 welding | nmod |
| 8 | ending | end | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 junction | csubj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 ending | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 formula | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 formula | det |
| 12 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 formula | compound |
| 13 | formula | formula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ending | obl |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 junction | cop |
| 15 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 20 junction | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 junction | det |
| 17 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 junction | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 junction | cc |
| 19 | inartistic | inartistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 junction | amod |
| 20 | junction | junction | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 implies | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 implies | cc |
| 23 | implies | imply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 junction | acl:relcl |
| 24 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 25 imperfect | advmod |
| 25 | imperfect | imperfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 assimilation | amod |
| 26 | assimilation | assimilation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 implies | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 formula | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 formula | det |
| 29 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 formula | compound |
| 30 | formula | formula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 assimilation | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 junction | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end on | gerund | the welding of the Sea Maiden | to the Cinderella formula | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | ending | a inartistic junction | clearly, late property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | imply | present | a inartistic junction not said here | imperfect assimilation of the Cinderella formula | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot assimilation=Topic | ||||
| 4 | weld | the Sea Maiden | nom welding «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | assimilate | the Cinderella formula | nom assimilation «state 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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