More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 65

But in Mr. Macleod's version the helpful animal, a sheep, is the heroine's mother herself!

What happens: be · To what, where: mother, version

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	18 mother	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	6 version	case
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Macleod	nmod:desc
4	Macleod	Macleod	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 version	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Macleod	case
6	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mother	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 animal	det
8	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animal	amod
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 version	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sheep	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sheep	det
12	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 animal	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 version	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 mother	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 heroine	det
16	heroine	heroine	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mother	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 heroine	case
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 mother	nmod:unmarked
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the heroine's mother		Macleod Mr.'s version		Heroine nmod:unmarked	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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