Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 83

To take our own tales here in England, there is not a single instance of a reference to _Jack and the Beanstalk_ for the last three hundred years, yet it is undoubtedly a true folk-tale.

Who acts: single instance, instance, our · What happens: take, be, tell, instance · To what, where: own tales, true folk tale, reference · 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 (single instance, instance, our), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 take	mark
2	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 is	advcl
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tales	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tales	amod
5	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 take	obj
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 take	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 England	case
8	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 here	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 take	punct
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 is	expl
11	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 instance	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 instance	det
14	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 instance	amod
15	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 is	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 reference	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 reference	det
18	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 instance	nmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 Jack	case
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	19 to	punct
21	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 reference	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Beanstalk	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Beanstalk	det
24	Beanstalk	Beanstalk	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Jack	conj
25	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 instance	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	31 years	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 years	det
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 years	amod
29	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 hundred	compound
30	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 years	nummod
31	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 _	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 tale	punct
33	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	41 tale	cc
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 tale	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 tale	cop
36	undoubtedly	undoubtedly	ADV	_	41 tale	advmod
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 tale	det
38	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 tale	amod
39	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 tale	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 folk	punct
41	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 is	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	to-infinitive	a single instance of a reference to Jack and the Beanstalk not said here	our own tales	here		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme
2	be	present	a single instance of a reference to Jack and the Beanstalk		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	instance	a true folk tale		undoubtedly property	tree rules
4	tell		our				nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
5	instance			a reference to Jack and the Beanstalk			nom instance «event transitive»: of=patient

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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