Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 13
Soils and national characters differ; but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.
Who acts: Soils, fairy tales · What happens: differ, be · To what, where: plot
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soils, fairy tales), 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 | Soils | soil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 differ | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 characters | cc |
| 3 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 characters | amod |
| 4 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Soils | conj |
| 5 | differ | differ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 same | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 same | cc |
| 8 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tales | compound |
| 9 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 same | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 same | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 same | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 differ | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 plot | case |
| 14 | plot | plot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 same | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 incidents | cc |
| 16 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 plot | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 treatment | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 not | mark |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 treatment | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 treatment | case |
| 21 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 same | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 differ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | differ | present | Soils and national characters | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | fairy tales | plot and incidents | same property | 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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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