More English Fairy Tales, LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham, sentence 13
It is indeed curious how little originality there is among mankind in the matter of stupidity.
Who acts: self, little originality, stupidity · What happens: be, matter
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (self, little originality, stupidity), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 curious | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 curious | cop |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 curious | advmod |
| 4 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 little | advmod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 originality | amod |
| 7 | originality | originality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 is | nsubj |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 is | expl |
| 9 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 curious | conj |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 11 mankind | case |
| 11 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 is | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 matter | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 matter | det |
| 14 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mankind | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 stupidity | case |
| 16 | stupidity | stupidity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 matter | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 curious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | self | curious, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | present | little originality | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | matter | stupidity | nom matter «cognition 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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