Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 26

For this reason I have included a considerable number of them in this volume; and shall be surprised if tales that have roused the laughter and wonder of pious Buddhists for the last two thousand years, cannot produce the same effect on English children.

Who acts: I, tales · What happens: include, be, rouse, not produce, wonder · To what, where: considerable number, volume, laughter, same effect, pious Buddhists

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 (I, 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 reason	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 included	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 included	aux
6	included	include	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reason	acl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 number	det
8	considerable	considerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 number	amod
9	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 included	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 number	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 volume	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 volume	det
14	volume	volume	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 number	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 surprised	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 surprised	cc
17	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 surprised	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 surprised	cop
19	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reason	parataxis
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	41 produce	mark
21	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 produce	nsubj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 roused	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 roused	aux
24	roused	rouse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 tales	acl:relcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 laughter	det
26	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 roused	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 wonder	cc
28	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 laughter	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 Buddhists	case
30	pious	pious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Buddhists	amod
31	Buddhists	Buddhist	PROPN	Number=Plur	28 wonder	nmod
32	for	for	ADP	_	37 years	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 years	det
34	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 years	amod
35	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 thousand	compound
36	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 years	nummod
37	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 roused	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tales	punct
39	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 produce	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 produce	advmod
41	produce	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 surprised	advcl
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 effect	det
43	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 effect	amod
44	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 produce	obj
45	on	on	ADP	_	47 children	case
46	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 children	amod
47	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 effect	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reason	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	include	present · perfect	I	a considerable number of tales		in this volume goal	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent number=Theme in volume=Goal
2	is	shall				surprised property	tree rules
3	rouse	present · perfect	tales	the laughter and wonder of pious Buddhists	year		vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laughter=Patient
4	not produce a condition, not said to happen	can	tales	the same effect		on English children	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Result
5	wonder			pious Buddhists			nom wonder «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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