Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, sentence 17

It includes all the beast tales and most of the drolls, but evidence is still lacking about the more serious fairy tales, though it is increasing with every fresh collection of folk-tales in India, the great importance of which is obvious from the above considerations.

Who acts: nucleus, evidence · What happens: include, droll, lack, increase, be · To what, where: beast tales, above considerations

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 (nucleus, evidence), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 includes	nsubj
2	includes	include	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 tales	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tales	det
5	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tales	compound
6	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 includes	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 most	cc
8	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 tales	nmod
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 drolls	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 drolls	det
11	drolls	droll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 most	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lacking	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 lacking	cc
14	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lacking	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 lacking	aux
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 lacking	advmod
17	lacking	lack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 includes	advcl
18	about	about	ADP	_	23 tales	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tales	det
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 serious	advmod
21	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tales	amod
22	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tales	compound
23	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lacking	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 increasing	punct
25	though	though	SCONJ	_	28 increasing	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 increasing	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 increasing	aux
28	increasing	increase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 lacking	advcl
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 collection	case
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	32 collection	det
31	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 collection	amod
32	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 increasing	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 tales	case
34	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tales	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 folk	punct
36	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 collection	nmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 India	case
38	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 tales	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 importance	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 importance	det
41	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 importance	amod
42	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 India	appos
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 which	case
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 obvious	obl
45	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 obvious	cop
46	obvious	obvious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 importance	acl:relcl
47	from	from	ADP	_	50 considerations	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 considerations	det
49	above	above	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 considerations	amod
50	considerations	consideration	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 obvious	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 includes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	include	present	nucleus	all beast tales most				vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme
2	droll	present	nucleus not said here					tree rules
3	lack	present · progressive	evidence			still	about the serious fairy tales	tree rules
4	increase	present · progressive	nucleus				with every fresh collection of folk tales in India	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	is	present			the above considerations		of the great importance; obvious property	tree rules

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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