Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 46

The collection of current Indian folk-tales has been the work of the last quarter of a century, a work, even after what has been achieved, still in its initial stages.

Who acts: collection · What happens: be, achieve · To what, where: work, initial stages

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (collection), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 collection	det
2	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 work	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 tales	case
4	current	current	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tales	amod
5	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tales	amod
6	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tales	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 folk	punct
8	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 collection	nmod
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 work	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 work	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 work	det
12	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 quarter	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 quarter	det
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 quarter	amod
16	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 work	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 century	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 century	det
19	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 quarter	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 work	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 work	det
22	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 work	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 achieved	punct
24	even	even	ADV	_	29 achieved	advmod
25	after	after	SCONJ	_	29 achieved	mark
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 achieved	nsubj:pass
27	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 achieved	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 achieved	aux:pass
29	achieved	achieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 work	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 stages	punct
31	still	still	ADV	_	35 stages	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 stages	case
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 stages	nmod:poss
34	initial	initial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 stages	amod
35	stages	stage	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 achieved	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 work	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present · perfect	the collection of current Indian folk tales	the work				of the last quarter of a century	tree rules
2	achieve	present · perfect · passive		a work		work's initial stages			vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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