More English Fairy Tales, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm, sentence 9

Jephtha vows are also frequent in folk-tales: Miss Cox gives many examples in her _Cinderella_, p. 511.

Who acts: Jephtha vows, Miss Cox · What happens: be, give · To what, where: folk tales, many examples, Cinderella

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jephtha vows, Miss Cox), 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	Jephtha	Jephtha	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 vows	compound
2	vows	vow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 frequent	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 frequent	cop
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 frequent	advmod
5	frequent	frequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 tales	case
7	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tales	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 folk	punct
9	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 frequent	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 gives	punct
11	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Cox	compound
12	Cox	Cox	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 gives	nsubj
13	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 frequent	parataxis
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 examples	amod
15	examples	example	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 gives	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 Cinderella	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 Cinderella	nmod:poss
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	19 Cinderella	punct
19	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 gives	obl
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 gives	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 511	punct
22	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 511	nmod:unmarked
23	511	511	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 gives	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 frequent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Jephtha vows			folk tales		frequent property	tree rules
2	give	present	Miss Cox	many examples		Cox's Cinderella		511 p. obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent example=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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