Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 30
Though Indian fairy tales are the earliest in existence, yet they are also from another point of view the youngest.
Who acts: Indian fairy tales, tales · What happens: be · To what, where: existence, point
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 (Indian fairy tales, 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 7 earliest | mark |
| 2 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tales | amod |
| 3 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tales | compound |
| 4 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 earliest | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 earliest | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 earliest | det |
| 7 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 existence | case |
| 9 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 earliest | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 point | punct |
| 11 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 17 point | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 point | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 point | cop |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 17 point | advmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 point | case |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 point | det |
| 17 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 youngest | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 view | case |
| 19 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 point | nmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 youngest | det |
| 21 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 earliest | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 earliest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Indian fairy tales | existence | early property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | tales = tale | another point | of view | 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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