More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 63

Throughout the variants it will be observed what an important function is played by the helpful animal.

Who acts: helpful animal · What happens: observe, play · To what, where: book, important function

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 (helpful animal), 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	Throughout	throughout	ADP	_	3 variants	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 variants	det
3	variants	variant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 observed	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 observed	nsubj:pass
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 observed	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 observed	aux:pass
7	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 played	obj
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 function	det
10	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 function	amod
11	function	function	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 played	nsubj:pass
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 played	aux:pass
13	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 observed	ccomp
14	by	by	ADP	_	17 animal	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 animal	det
16	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 animal	amod
17	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 played	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 observed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	observe	future · passive		book			throughout the variants		tree rules
2	play	present · passive	the helpful animal	a important function					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary what=Theme

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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