More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 25

_), he is inclined to think, from the evidence of the hero-tales which have the unsavoury _motif_ of the Unnatural Father, that the original home of the story was England, where most of the hero-tales locate the incident.

Who acts: hero tales, original home, most · What happens: incline, think, have, be, locate, evidence · To what, where: Mr., evidence, unsavoury motif, England, incident, hero tales

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 (hero tales, original home, most), 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	_	6 inclined	punct
2	)	)	PUNCT	_	1 _	punct
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 inclined	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 inclined	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 inclined	aux:pass
6	inclined	incline	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 think	mark
8	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 inclined	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 evidence	punct
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 evidence	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 evidence	det
12	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 think	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 tales	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tales	det
15	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tales	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 hero	punct
17	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 evidence	nmod
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 tales	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 motif	det
21	unsavoury	unsavoury	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 motif	amod
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 unsavoury	punct
23	motif	motif	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 Father	punct
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 Father	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Father	det
27	Unnatural	Unnatural	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Father	compound
28	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 evidence	appos
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 England	punct
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 England	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 home	det
32	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 home	amod
33	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 England	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 story	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 story	det
36	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 home	nmod
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 England	cop
38	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Father	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 locate	punct
40	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	47 locate	advmod
41	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	47 locate	nsubj
42	of	of	ADP	_	46 tales	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 tales	det
44	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 tales	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 hero	punct
46	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 most	nmod
47	locate	locate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 Father	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 incident	det
49	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 locate	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 inclined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	incline	present · passive		Mr.		tree rules
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive			the evidence of the hero tales	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	the hero tales	the unsavoury motif		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motif=Patient
4	is a	past	the original home of the story	England		tree rules
5	locate	present	most of the hero tales	the incident		tree rules
6	evidence			the hero tales		nom evidence «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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