More English Fairy Tales, LXXIV. King O' Cats, sentence 13

Here again we can scarcely imagine more than a single origin for the tale which is, in its way, as weird and fantastic as E.A.

Who acts: we, tale · What happens: imagine, be · To what, where: more, way

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXIV. King O' Cats. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, tale), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 again	advmod
2	again	again	ADV	_	6 imagine	advmod
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 imagine	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 imagine	aux
5	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	6 imagine	advmod
6	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 imagine	obj
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 origin	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 origin	det
10	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 origin	amod
11	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 more	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 tale	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tale	det
14	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 origin	nmod
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 way	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 way	cop
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 is	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 way	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 way	nmod:poss
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tale	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 weird	punct
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 weird	case
23	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 imagine	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fantastic	cc
25	fantastic	fantastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 weird	conj
26	as	as	ADP	_	27 E.A	case
27	E.A	E.A	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 fantastic	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	imagine	can	we	more			again	scarcely property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=Theme
2	is	present	the tale			tale's way			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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