Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 81

Some of Somadeva's tales, however, approach the nature of fairy tales, but there are several Celtic tales which can be traced to an earlier date than his (1200 A.D.) and are equally near to fairy tales.

Who acts: tales, several Celtic tales, Somadeva · What happens: approach, be, trace, tell · To what, where: nature, fairy tales, several Celtic tales · 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 (tales, several Celtic tales, Somadeva), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 tales	det
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 tales	case
3	Somadeva	Somadeva	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tales	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Somadeva	case
5	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 approach	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tales	punct
7	however	however	ADV	_	9 approach	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 however	punct
9	approach	approach	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 nature	det
11	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 approach	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 tales	case
13	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tales	compound
14	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 nature	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 are	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 are	cc
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 are	expl
18	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 approach	parataxis
19	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tales	amod
20	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tales	amod
21	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 are	nsubj
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 traced	nsubj:pass
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 traced	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 traced	aux:pass
25	traced	trace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 tales	acl:relcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 date	case
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 date	det
28	earlier	early	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 date	amod
29	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 traced	obl
30	than	than	ADP	_	34 A.D	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 A.D	nmod:poss
32	(	(	PUNCT	_	34 A.D	punct
33	1200	1200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	34 A.D	nummod
34	A.D	A.D	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 date	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 approach	punct
36	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 approach	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 near	cc
38	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 near	cop
39	equally	equally	ADV	_	40 near	advmod
40	near	near	ADP	_	43 tales	case
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 tales	case
42	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 tales	compound
43	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 approach	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 approach	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	approach	infinitive	Somadeva's tales	the nature of fairy tales	fairy tales	however property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=Theme
2	does	present	several Celtic tales		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	trace	can · passive		several Celtic tales		to a earlier date than Somadeva's 1200 A.D	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	tell		Somadeva				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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