Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 76

Mr Clouston has not openly expressed his conviction that all folk-tales are Indian in origin: he prefers to convince us _non vi sed sæpe cadendo_.

Who acts: Mr, conviction · What happens: not express, be, prefer, convince, s, convict · To what, where: conviction, origin, us

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, conviction), 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	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 expressed	nsubj
2	Clouston	Clouston	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mr	flat
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 expressed	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 expressed	advmod
5	openly	openly	ADV	_	6 expressed	advmod
6	expressed	express	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 conviction	nmod:poss
8	conviction	conviction	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 expressed	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 Indian	nsubj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 tales	det
11	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tales	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 folk	punct
13	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 Indian	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 Indian	cop
15	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 conviction	acl:relcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 origin	case
17	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Indian	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 prefers	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 prefers	nsubj
20	prefers	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 expressed	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 convince	mark
22	convince	convince	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 prefers	xcomp
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 convince	iobj
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 non	punct
25	non	non	ADV	_	22 convince	xcomp
26	vi	vi	X	Foreign=Yes	25 non	goeswith
27	sed	s	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 cadendo	amod
28	sæpe	sæpe	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cadendo	compound
29	cadendo	cadendo	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 non	obj
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 non	punct
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 expressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not express	present · perfect	Mr	Mr's conviction			openly property	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conviction=Theme
2	is	present	Mr's conviction			origin	indian property	tree rules
3	prefer	present	Mr					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	convince not said to happen	to-infinitive	Mr not said here		us			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer
5	s	participle						tree rules
6	convict		Mr					nom conviction «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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