Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 45
Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. have allowed me to use Mr. Knowles' "Folk-tales of Kashmir," in their Oriental Library; and Messrs.
Who acts: Kegan Paul, Knowles · What happens: allow, use, tale · To what, where: Kegan Paul, me, Oriental Library
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 (Kegan Paul, Knowles), 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 | Kegan | Kegan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Paul | compound |
| 2 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Trench | punct |
| 4 | Trench | Trench | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Paul | conj |
| 5 | & | & | CCONJ | _ | 6 Co. | cc |
| 6 | Co. | co. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Trench | conj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 allowed | aux |
| 8 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 allowed | iobj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 use | mark |
| 11 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 allowed | xcomp |
| 12 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Knowles | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Knowles | Knowles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 tales | nsubj |
| 14 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 13 Knowles | case |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 tales | punct |
| 16 | Folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tales | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Folk | punct |
| 18 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 use | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Kashmir | case |
| 20 | Kashmir | Kashmir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 tales | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Library | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Library | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Library | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 Library | nmod:poss |
| 25 | Oriental | Oriental | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Library | compound |
| 26 | Library | Library | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 allowed | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 Messrs | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Messrs | cc |
| 29 | Messrs | Messrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 allowed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | present · perfect · passive | Kegan Paul and Trench & Co. | me | Knowles's Oriental Library | Messrs obl | tree rules | ||
| 2 | use not said to happen | to-infinitive | Kegan Paul and Trench & Co. not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tale in a quote | Knowles Mr. | of Kashmir | 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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