Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 31

For it is only about twenty-five years ago that Miss Frere began the modern collection of Indian folk-tales with her charming "Old Deccan Days" (London, John Murray, 1868; fourth edition, 1889).

Who acts: point, Miss · What happens: be, begin · To what, where: modern collection

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 (point, Miss), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	10 ago	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ago	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 ago	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 five	advmod
5	about	about	ADV	_	8 five	advmod
6	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 five	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 twenty	punct
8	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ago	obl:unmarked
10	ago	ago	ADV	_	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 began	mark
12	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 began	nsubj
13	Frere	Frere	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Miss	flat
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ago	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 collection	det
16	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 collection	amod
17	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 began	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 tales	case
19	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tales	amod
20	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tales	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 folk	punct
22	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 collection	nmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 charming	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 charming	nmod:poss
25	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tales	nmod
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 Days	punct
27	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Days	amod
28	Deccan	Deccan	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Days	compound
29	Days	Day	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 charming	nmod
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 Days	punct
31	(	(	PUNCT	_	32 London	punct
32	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Days	appos
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 John	punct
34	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 London	conj
35	Murray	Murray	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 John	flat
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 1868	punct
37	1868	1868	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	34 John	flat
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 edition	punct
39	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	40 edition	amod
40	edition	edition	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 began	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 1889	punct
42	1889	1889	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	40 edition	appos
43	)	)	PUNCT	_	42 1889	punct
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 ago	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	point				year	ago property	tree rules
2	begin	past	Miss	the modern collection of Indian folk tales with Miss's charming Old Deccan Days				fourth edition obl	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collection=Eventuality

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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