Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 53

It is not too much to say that this analysis marks an onward step in the scientific study of the folk-tale: there is such a thing, derided as it may be.

Who acts: value, analysis · What happens: not be, say, mark, be, deride, study · To what, where: onward step, scientific study, much thing, folk tale · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (value, analysis), 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 much	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 much	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 much	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 thing	amod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 much	acl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 marks	mark
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 analysis	det
10	analysis	analysis	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 marks	nsubj
11	marks	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 step	det
13	onward	onward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 step	amod
14	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 marks	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 study	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 study	det
17	scientific	scientific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 study	amod
18	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 step	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 tale	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tale	det
21	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tale	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 folk	punct
23	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 study	nmod
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 is	punct
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 is	expl
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 thing	cop
27	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	29 thing	det:predet
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 thing	det
29	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 derided	punct
31	derided	deride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 thing	conj
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 be	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 be	nsubj
34	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 be	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 derided	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present	value			much property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	mark	present	this analysis	a onward step	the scientific study of the folk tale		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent step=Theme in study=Destination
4	is a	present		such much thing			tree rules
5	deride	participle					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	study			the folk tale			nom study «act transitive»: of=patient

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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