Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 69

In my opinion, the work he has done for the European folk-tale is even more valuable than the conclusions he draws from it as to the relations with India.

Who acts: M., work, my · What happens: do, be, draw, opine · To what, where: work, opinion

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 (M., work, my), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 opinion	case
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 opinion	nmod:poss
3	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 valuable	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 opinion	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 work	det
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 valuable	nsubj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 done	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 done	aux
9	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 work	acl:relcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	15 tale	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tale	det
12	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tale	amod
13	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tale	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 folk	punct
15	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 done	obl
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 valuable	cop
17	even	even	ADV	_	18 more	advmod
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 valuable	advmod
19	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
20	than	than	ADP	_	22 conclusions	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 conclusions	det
22	conclusions	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 draws	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 draws	nsubj
24	draws	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 valuable	parataxis
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 draws	obl
27	as	as	ADP	_	30 relations	case
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 relations	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 relations	det
30	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 draws	obl
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 India	case
32	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 relations	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 valuable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	present · perfect	M.	the work not said here		for the European folk tale	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
2	is	present	the work		my opinion	valuable property	tree rules
3	draw	present	M.			than the conclusions; as the relations with India; from work	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from it=Co-Patient
4	opine		my				nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=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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