More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 62

Mr. Macleod's version, however, contains an incident which seems to bring us nearer to the original form than any version contained in Miss Cox's book.

Who acts: version, incident · What happens: contain, seem, bring · To what, where: incident, us, original form, version, book

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 (version, incident), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Macleod	nmod:desc
2	Macleod	Macleod	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 version	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Macleod	case
4	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 contains	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 version	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	8 contains	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 however	punct
8	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 incident	det
10	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 contains	obj
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 seems	nsubj
12	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 incident	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 bring	mark
14	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 seems	xcomp
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 bring	obj
16	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 bring	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 form	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 form	det
19	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 form	amod
20	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bring	obl
21	than	than	ADP	_	23 version	case
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 version	det
23	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 form	nmod
24	contained	contain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 version	acl
25	in	in	ADP	_	29 book	case
26	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Cox	compound
27	Cox	Cox	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 book	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 Cox	case
29	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 contained	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 contains	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	contain	present	Macleod Mr.'s version	a incident		however property	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot incident=Theme
2	seem	present	a incident				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	bring	to-infinitive	a incident not said here	us	the original form than any version	near property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme to form=Destination
4	contain	participle		any version not said here	Miss Cox's book		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in book=Location

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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