Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 72
He has certainly shown that very many of the most striking incidents common to European folk-tales are also to be found in Eastern _mährchen_.
Who acts: M. · What happens: show, strike, find · To what, where: many, Eastern
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.), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shown | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shown | aux |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 shown | advmod |
| 4 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 found | mark |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 many | advmod |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 found | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 incidents | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 incidents | det |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 striking | advmod |
| 11 | striking | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 incidents | amod |
| 12 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 many | nmod |
| 13 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tales | case |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 common | fixed |
| 15 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tales | amod |
| 16 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tales | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 folk | punct |
| 18 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 many | nmod |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 found | aux:pass |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 23 found | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 found | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 found | aux:pass |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 shown | parataxis |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Eastern | case |
| 25 | Eastern | Eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 found | obl |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 mährchen | punct |
| 27 | mährchen | mährchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Eastern | appos |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 found | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · perfect | M. | certainly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | strike | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | find | present · passive | many of the striking incidents common European folk tales | Eastern | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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