More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 29
This appears to be a somewhat insufficient basis for such a conclusion.
Who acts: This · What happens: appear, be · To what, where: somewhat insufficient basis
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 appears | nsubj |
| 2 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 basis | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 basis | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 basis | det |
| 6 | somewhat | somewhat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 basis | amod |
| 7 | insufficient | insufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 basis | amod |
| 8 | basis | basis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 appears | ccomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 conclusion | case |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 conclusion | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 conclusion | det |
| 12 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 basis | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | This | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | This not said here | a somewhat insufficient basis | for such conclusion | 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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