Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 85
Thus, the _Magic Fiddle_, found among the Santals by Mr. Campbell in two variants (see Notes on vi.), contains the germ idea of the wide-spread story represented in Great Britain by the ballad of _Binnorie_ (see _English Fairy Tales_, No. ix.).
Who acts: _ Magic Fiddle, two variants · What happens: find, see, contain, spread, represent · To what, where: Santals, two variants, Notes, vi, germ idea, spread story
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 (_ Magic Fiddle, two variants), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 27 contains | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thus | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Fiddle | det |
| 4 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fiddle | compound |
| 5 | Magic | Magic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fiddle | compound |
| 6 | Fiddle | Fiddle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 contains | nsubj |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fiddle | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Fiddle | acl |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 Santals | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Santals | det |
| 12 | Santals | Santal | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 found | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Campbell | case |
| 14 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Campbell | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Campbell | Campbell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Santals | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 variants | case |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 variants | nummod |
| 18 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 found | obl |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 variants | acl |
| 21 | Notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 see | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 vi | case |
| 23 | vi | vi | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 see | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fiddle | punct |
| 27 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 idea | det |
| 29 | germ | germ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 idea | compound |
| 30 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 contains | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 story | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 story | det |
| 33 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 spread | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 wide | punct |
| 35 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 story | amod |
| 36 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 idea | nmod |
| 37 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 story | acl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 Britain | case |
| 39 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Britain | flat |
| 40 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 represented | obl |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 43 ballad | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 ballad | det |
| 43 | ballad | ballad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 represented | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 Binnorie | case |
| 45 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 44 of | punct |
| 46 | Binnorie | Binnorie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 ballad | nmod |
| 47 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 49 see | punct |
| 48 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 49 see | punct |
| 49 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 27 contains | parataxis |
| 50 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 53 Tales | punct |
| 51 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 Fairy | amod |
| 52 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 Tales | compound |
| 53 | Tales | Tale | PROPN | Number=Plur | 49 see | obj |
| 54 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 53 Tales | punct |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 ix | punct |
| 56 | No. | no. | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 ix | det |
| 57 | ix | ix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 Tales | appos |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 49 see | punct |
| 59 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 49 see | punct |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 contains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | participle | the _ Magic Fiddle not said here | the Santals | two variants | by Campbell Mr. | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent santal=Topic | ||
| 2 | see | infinitive | two variants not said here | Notes | vi | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | contain | present | the _ Magic Fiddle | the germ idea of the spread story | thus property | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot idea=Theme | |||
| 4 | spread | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | represent | participle | the spread story not said here | by the ballad of Binnorie; in Great Britain | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in britain=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | see | infinitive | Fairy Tales | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus |
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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