Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, sentence 12
So far as Europe has a common store of fairy tales, it owes this to India.
Who acts: Europe, store · What happens: have, owe · To what, where: common store, this, India
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 (Europe, store), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 has | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 has | mark |
| 4 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 store | det |
| 7 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 store | amod |
| 8 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tales | case |
| 10 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tales | compound |
| 11 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 store | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 owes | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 owes | nsubj |
| 14 | owes | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 has | parataxis |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 owes | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 India | case |
| 17 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 owes | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Europe | a common store of fairy tales | far property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent store=Patient | |||
| 2 | owe | present | store | this | India | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent this=Theme to india=Goal |
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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