Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 44
To Major Temple I owe the advantage of selecting from his admirable _Wideawake Stories_, and Messrs.
Who acts: I, advantage · What happens: owe, select · To what, where: advantage, Major Temple, admirable Wideawake Stories
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, advantage), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 Temple | case |
| 2 | Major | Major | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Temple | compound |
| 3 | Temple | Temple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 owe | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 owe | nsubj |
| 5 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 advantage | det |
| 7 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 owe | obj |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 selecting | mark |
| 9 | selecting | select | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 advantage | acl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Stories | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Stories | nmod:poss |
| 12 | admirable | admirable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Stories | amod |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 admirable | punct |
| 14 | Wideawake | wideawake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Stories | compound |
| 15 | Stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 selecting | obl |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 Stories | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Messrs | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Messrs | cc |
| 19 | Messrs | Messrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 owe | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 owe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe | present | I | the advantage | Major Temple | Messrs obl | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme to temple=Goal | ||
| 2 | select | gerund | the advantage not said here | Temple's admirable Wideawake Stories | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from story=Source |
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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