More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 72
Having regard to the feudal character underlying the whole conception, it remains possible that the earlier part was ingeniously dovetailed on to the latter from some pre-existing and more archaic tale, perhaps that represented by the Grimms' _One Eyed, Two Eyes, and Three Eyes_.
Who acts: conception, feudal character · What happens: have, underlie, remain, dovetail on, represent · To what, where: regard, whole conception, earlier part, Three Eyes
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 (conception, feudal character), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 remains | advcl |
| 2 | regard | regard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 character | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 character | det |
| 5 | feudal | feudal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 character | amod |
| 6 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 regard | nmod |
| 7 | underlying | underlie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 character | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 conception | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 conception | amod |
| 10 | conception | conception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 underlying | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 remains | nsubj |
| 13 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 remains | xcomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 dovetailed | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 part | det |
| 17 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 part | amod |
| 18 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dovetailed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 dovetailed | aux:pass |
| 20 | ingeniously | ingeniously | ADV | _ | 21 dovetailed | advmod |
| 21 | dovetailed | dovetail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 remains | advcl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 dovetailed | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 latter | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 latter | det |
| 25 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dovetailed | obl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 pre-existing | case |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 pre-existing | det |
| 28 | pre-existing | pre-existing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 latter | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 tale | cc |
| 30 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 31 archaic | advmod |
| 31 | archaic | archaic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 tale | amod |
| 32 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pre-existing | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 represented | punct |
| 34 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 36 represented | advmod |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 represented | mark |
| 36 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 dovetailed | parataxis |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 43 Eyed | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Grimms | det |
| 39 | Grimms | grimm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 Eyed | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 39 Grimms | case |
| 41 | _ | _ | ADP | _ | 43 Eyed | case |
| 42 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 Eyed | nummod |
| 43 | Eyed | Eyed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 represented | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 Eyes | punct |
| 45 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 Eyes | nummod |
| 46 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 Eyed | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 Eyes | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 Eyes | cc |
| 49 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 50 Eyes | nummod |
| 50 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 represented | obl |
| 51 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 36 represented | punct |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 remains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | conception not said here | regard | to the feudal character | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent regard=Patient | |||
| 2 | underlie | gerund | the feudal character not said here | the whole conception | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme conception=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | remain | present | conception | possible property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dovetail on | past · passive | the earlier part | to the latter; ingeniously property | vn harmonize-22.6 «NP V PP»: subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | represent | participle | Three Eyes | by the Grimms's One Eyed and Two Eyes; perhaps property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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