More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 60
Campbell's tale can clearly lay no claim to represent the original type of Cinderella.
Who acts: tale, Campbell · What happens: lay, represent, tell, type · To what, where: claim, original type, Cinderella · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (tale, Campbell), 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 | Campbell | Campbell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tale | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Campbell | case |
| 3 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 lay | aux |
| 5 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 6 lay | advmod |
| 6 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 claim | det |
| 8 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 represent | mark |
| 10 | represent | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 claim | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 type | det |
| 12 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 type | amod |
| 13 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 represent | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Cinderella | case |
| 15 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 type | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | can | Campbell's tale | no claim | clearly property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Result | |||
| 2 | represent | to-infinitive | Campbell's tale not said here | the original type of Cinderella | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot type=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell | Campbell | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | type | Cinderella | nom type «cognition 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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