More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 28
His chief reason appears to be the earlier appearance of Catskin in Straparola,[4] 1550, a hundred years earlier than Cinderella in Basile, 1636.
Who acts: chief reason · What happens: appear, be · To what, where: earlier appearance
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 (chief reason), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 reason | nmod:poss |
| 2 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reason | amod |
| 3 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appears | nsubj |
| 4 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 appearance | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 appearance | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 appearance | det |
| 8 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 appearance | amod |
| 9 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appears | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Catskin | case |
| 11 | Catskin | Catskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 appearance | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Straparola | case |
| 13 | Straparola | Straparola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Catskin | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 4 | punct |
| 15 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 16 4 | punct |
| 16 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 appearance | conj |
| 17 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 16 4 | punct |
| 18 | 1550 | 1550 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 4 | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 earlier | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hundred | det |
| 21 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 years | nummod |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 earlier | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 appears | advmod |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 Cinderella | case |
| 25 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 earlier | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 Basile | case |
| 27 | Basile | Basile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Cinderella | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 1636 | punct |
| 29 | 1636 | 1636 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 Cinderella | nmod:unmarked |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | Mr.'s chief reason | early property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | Mr.'s chief reason not said here | the earlier appearance | of Catskin in Straparola | 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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