Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 48
It is no slight thing to embody, as he has done, the glamour and the humour both of the Celt and of the Hindoo.
Who acts: form, Mr. · What happens: be, embody, do · To what, where: slight thing
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 (form, Mr.), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | cop |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | slight | slight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 embody | mark |
| 7 | embody | embody | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thing | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 done | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 done | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 done | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 done | aux |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 embody | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 glamour | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 glamour | det |
| 15 | glamour | glamour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thing | appos |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 humour | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 humour | det |
| 18 | humour | humour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 glamour | conj |
| 19 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 Celt | det |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Celt | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Celt | det |
| 22 | Celt | Celt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 glamour | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Hindoo | cc |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Hindoo | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Hindoo | det |
| 26 | Hindoo | Hindoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Celt | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | form | no slight thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | embody | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | do | present · perfect | Mr. | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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