Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, sentence 11
Exactly in the same way, Perrault's tales have ousted the older English folk-tales, and it is with the utmost difficulty that one can get true English fairy tales because _Red Riding Hood_, _Cinderella_, _Blue Beard_, _Puss in Boots_ and the rest, have survived in the struggle for existence among English folk-tales.
Who acts: tales, many, utmost difficulty, Perrault · What happens: oust, be, get, survive, tell · To what, where: older English folk tales, same way, true English fairy tales, rest, struggle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tales, many, utmost difficulty, Perrault), 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 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 11 ousted | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 way | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ousted | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 7 | Perrault | Perrault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 tales | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Perrault | case |
| 9 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ousted | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ousted | aux |
| 11 | ousted | oust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tales | det |
| 13 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 tales | amod |
| 14 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tales | amod |
| 15 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tales | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 folk | punct |
| 17 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ousted | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 difficulty | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 difficulty | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 difficulty | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 difficulty | cop |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 difficulty | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 difficulty | det |
| 24 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 difficulty | amod |
| 25 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ousted | obl |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 get | nsubj |
| 27 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 get | nsubj |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 get | aux |
| 29 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 difficulty | acl |
| 30 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 tales | amod |
| 31 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 tales | amod |
| 32 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tales | compound |
| 33 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 get | obj |
| 34 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 29 get | mark |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 34 because | punct |
| 36 | Red | Red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Hood | amod |
| 37 | Riding | Riding | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Hood | compound |
| 38 | Hood | Hood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 because | obl |
| 39 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 38 Hood | punct |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Cinderella | punct |
| 41 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 42 Cinderella | punct |
| 42 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Hood | appos |
| 43 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 42 Cinderella | punct |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 _ | punct |
| 45 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Cinderella | conj |
| 46 | Blue | Blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 Beard | amod |
| 47 | Beard | Beard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 _ | appos |
| 48 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 42 Cinderella | punct |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 Puss | punct |
| 50 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 51 Puss | punct |
| 51 | Puss | puss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 Hood | appos |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 53 Boots | case |
| 53 | Boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 Puss | nmod |
| 54 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 38 Hood | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 survived | cc |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 rest | det |
| 57 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 survived | nsubj:pass |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 rest | punct |
| 59 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 60 survived | aux |
| 60 | survived | survive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 54 _ | conj |
| 61 | in | in | ADP | _ | 63 struggle | case |
| 62 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 63 struggle | det |
| 63 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 survived | obl |
| 64 | for | for | ADP | _ | 65 existence | case |
| 65 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 struggle | nmod |
| 66 | among | among | ADP | _ | 70 tales | case |
| 67 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 70 tales | amod |
| 68 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 70 tales | compound |
| 69 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 68 folk | punct |
| 70 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 60 survived | obl |
| 71 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ousted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oust | present · perfect | Perrault's tales | the older English folk tales | the same way | exactly property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | present | many | with the utmost difficulty | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | can | the utmost difficulty | true English fairy tales | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | survive | present · perfect · passive | the rest | the struggle for existence | among English folk tales | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Circumstance | |||
| 5 | tell | Perrault | 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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