Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 75
It should be added that Mr W. A. Clouston has in England collected with exemplary industry a large number of parallels between Indian and European folk-tale incidents in his _Popular Tales and Fictions_ (Edinburgh, 2 vols., 1887) and _Book of Noodles_ (London, 1888).
Who acts: Mr · What happens: add, have, collect, tell · To what, where: question, large number, England · 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 (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 | 4 added | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 added | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 added | aux:pass |
| 4 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 has | mark |
| 6 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 has | nsubj |
| 7 | W. | W. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mr | flat |
| 8 | A. | A. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mr | flat |
| 9 | Clouston | Clouston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mr | flat |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 added | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 England | case |
| 12 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 collected | obl |
| 13 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 has | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 industry | case |
| 15 | exemplary | exemplary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 industry | amod |
| 16 | industry | industry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 collected | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 number | det |
| 18 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 number | amod |
| 19 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 collected | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 parallels | case |
| 21 | parallels | parallel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 number | nmod |
| 22 | between | between | ADP | _ | 29 incidents | case |
| 23 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 incidents | amod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 incidents | cc |
| 25 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 incidents | amod |
| 26 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tale | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 folk | punct |
| 28 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 incidents | compound |
| 29 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 parallels | nmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 Tales | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 Tales | nmod:poss |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 34 Tales | punct |
| 33 | Popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Tales | amod |
| 34 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 incidents | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 Fictions | cc |
| 36 | Fictions | fiction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 Tales | conj |
| 37 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 Edinburgh | punct |
| 38 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 39 Edinburgh | punct |
| 39 | Edinburgh | Edinburgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Tales | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 vols | punct |
| 41 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 42 vols | nummod |
| 42 | vols | vol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 Edinburgh | appos |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 vols | punct |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 1887 | punct |
| 45 | 1887 | 1887 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 39 Edinburgh | list |
| 46 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 45 1887 | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 Book | cc |
| 48 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 49 Book | punct |
| 49 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Edinburgh | conj |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 Noodles | case |
| 51 | Noodles | Noodle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 49 Book | nmod |
| 52 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 Edinburgh | punct |
| 53 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 54 London | punct |
| 54 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Edinburgh | appos |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 1888 | punct |
| 56 | 1888 | 1888 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 54 London | conj |
| 57 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 54 London | punct |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | should · passive | question | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | have | present | Mr | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | collect | past | a large number of parallels between Indian European tale incidents in Mr's Popular Tales Edinburgh and Book of Noodles and Fictions | England | with exemplary industry | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent number=Patient with industry=Instrument | |||
| 4 | tell | Mr | nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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