More English Fairy Tales, LXXVI. the Stars in the Sky, sentence 8
_--The "sell" at the end is scarcely after the manner of the folk, and various touches throughout indicate a transmission through minds tainted with culture and introspection.
Who acts: sell, various touches · What happens: be, indicate, taint · To what, where: transmission, minds
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXVI. the Stars in the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sell, various touches), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 manner | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 sell | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sell | det |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sell | punct |
| 5 | sell | sell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 manner | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sell | punct |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sell | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 manner | cop |
| 11 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 14 manner | advmod |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 manner | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 manner | det |
| 14 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 folk | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 folk | det |
| 17 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 manner | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 indicate | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 indicate | cc |
| 20 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 touches | amod |
| 21 | touches | touch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 indicate | nsubj |
| 22 | throughout | throughout | PART | _ | 23 indicate | mark |
| 23 | indicate | indicate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 manner | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 transmission | det |
| 25 | transmission | transmission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 indicate | obj |
| 26 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 minds | case |
| 27 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 indicate | obl |
| 28 | tainted | taint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 minds | acl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 culture | case |
| 30 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tainted | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 introspection | cc |
| 32 | introspection | introspection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 culture | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 manner | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the sell at the end | after the manner | of the folk; scarcely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | indicate | infinitive | various touches | a transmission | minds | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot transmission=Topic | |||
| 3 | taint | participle | minds not said here | with culture and introspection | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with culture=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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