More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 12
Of these the chap-book versions contain scarcely anything of the opening _motifs_.
Who acts: book versions · What happens: contain · To what, where: anything
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXIII. Catskin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (book versions), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 these | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 versions | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 book | det |
| 4 | chap | chap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 book | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 chap | punct |
| 6 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 versions | compound |
| 7 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 contain | nsubj |
| 8 | contain | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | scarcely | scarcely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 anything | amod |
| 10 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 contain | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 opening | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 opening | det |
| 13 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 anything | nmod |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 motifs | punct |
| 15 | motifs | motif | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 opening | conj |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 contain | discourse |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 contain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | this book versions | anything | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anything=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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