More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 4
_--Miss Cox's admirable volume of variants of _Cinderella_ also contains seventy-three variants of _Catskin_, besides thirteen "indeterminate" ones which approximate to that type.
Who acts: _, thirteen indeterminate ones, Cinderella, Catskin · What happens: contain, beside, approximate, vary · To what, where: three variants, thirteen indeterminate ones
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 (_, thirteen indeterminate ones, Cinderella, Catskin), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 contains | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 volume | punct |
| 3 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Cox | compound |
| 4 | Cox | Cox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 volume | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Cox | case |
| 6 | admirable | admirable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 volume | amod |
| 7 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 variants | case |
| 9 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 volume | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Cinderella | case |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 of | punct |
| 12 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 variants | nmod |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 contains | advmod |
| 15 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | seventy | seventy | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 three | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 seventy | punct |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 variants | nummod |
| 19 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 contains | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Catskin | case |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 of | punct |
| 22 | Catskin | Catskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 variants | nmod |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 variants | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 besides | punct |
| 25 | besides | beside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 contains | conj |
| 26 | thirteen | thirteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 ones | nummod |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 indeterminate | punct |
| 28 | indeterminate | indeterminate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 ones | amod |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 indeterminate | punct |
| 30 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 besides | obj |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 approximate | nsubj |
| 32 | approximate | approximate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 ones | acl:relcl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 type | case |
| 34 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 type | det |
| 35 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 approximate | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 contains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | _ | three variants of Catskin | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot variant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beside | present | _ not said here | thirteen indeterminate ones | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | approximate | present | thirteen indeterminate ones | to that type | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | vary | Cinderella | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | vary | Catskin | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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