More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 26

I would merely remark on this that there are only very slight traces of the story in these islands nowadays, while it abounds in Italy, which possesses one almost perfect version of the formula (Miss Cox, No. 142, from Sardinia).

Who acts: I, slight traces, most · What happens: remark, be, abound, possess · To what, where: this, Italy, one perfect version

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 (I, slight traces, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 remark	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 remark	aux
3	merely	merely	ADV	_	4 remark	advmod
4	remark	remark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 remark	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 are	mark
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 are	expl
9	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 remark	advcl
10	only	only	ADV	_	13 traces	advmod
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 slight	advmod
12	slight	slight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 traces	amod
13	traces	trace	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 are	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 story	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 story	det
16	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 traces	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 islands	case
18	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 islands	det
19	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 story	nmod
20	nowadays	nowadays	ADV	_	19 islands	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 abounds	punct
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 abounds	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 abounds	nsubj
24	abounds	abound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 remark	parataxis
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 Italy	case
26	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 abounds	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 possesses	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 possesses	nsubj
29	possesses	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 abounds	conj
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 version	nummod
31	almost	almost	ADV	_	32 perfect	advmod
32	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 version	amod
33	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 possesses	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 formula	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 formula	det
36	formula	formula	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 version	nmod
37	(	(	PUNCT	_	38 Miss	punct
38	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 formula	appos
39	Cox	Cox	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Miss	flat
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 No.	punct
41	No.	No.	PROPN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	38 Miss	conj
42	142	142	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	41 No.	flat
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 Sardinia	punct
44	from	from	ADP	_	45 Sardinia	case
45	Sardinia	Sardinia	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Miss	conj
46	)	)	PUNCT	_	38 Miss	punct
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 remark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remark speech: assert	would	I		this	merely property	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	does	present	slight traces of the story in this islands		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	abound	present	most		Italy		vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in italy=Location
4	possess	present		one perfect version of the formula			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot version=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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