Indian Fairy Tales, I. the Lion and the Crane., sentence 15

_--I have selected _The Wolf and the Crane_ as my typical example in my "History of the Æsopic Fable," and can only give here a rough summary of the results I there arrived at concerning the fable, merely premising that these results are at present no more than hypotheses.

Who acts: I, results, my · What happens: select, give, arrive, concern, premise, be · To what, where: Wolf, History, rough summary, fable

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. the Lion and the Crane.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, results, my), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 selected	punct
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	5 selected	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 selected	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 selected	aux
5	selected	select	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 Wolf	punct
7	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Wolf	det
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 selected	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Crane	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Crane	det
11	Crane	Crane	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Wolf	conj
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 Wolf	punct
13	as	as	ADP	_	16 example	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 example	nmod:poss
15	typical	typical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 example	amod
16	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 selected	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 History	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 History	nmod:poss
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 History	punct
20	History	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 selected	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 Fable	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Fable	det
23	Æsopic	Æsopic	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Fable	compound
24	Fable	Fable	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 History	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Fable	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Fable	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 give	cc
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 give	aux
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 give	advmod
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 selected	conj
31	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 give	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 summary	det
33	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 summary	amod
34	summary	summary	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 give	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 results	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 results	det
37	results	result	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 summary	nmod
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 arrived	nsubj
39	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 arrived	advmod
40	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 summary	acl:relcl
41	at	at	SCONJ	_	42 concerning	mark
42	concerning	concern	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 arrived	advcl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 fable	det
44	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 concerning	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 premising	punct
46	merely	merely	ADV	_	47 premising	advmod
47	premising	premise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 concerning	conj
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 present	mark
49	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	50 results	det
50	results	result	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 present	nsubj
51	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 present	cop
52	at	at	ADP	_	53 present	case
53	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 premising	ccomp
54	no	no	ADV	_	55 more	advmod
55	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	53 present	advmod
56	than	than	ADP	_	57 hypotheses	case
57	hypotheses	hypothesis	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 more	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 selected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	select	present · perfect	I	the Wolf and the Crane	my History of the Æsopic Fable	as my typical example	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme as example=Attribute
2	give	can	I not said here	a rough summary of the results	here		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summary=Theme
3	arrive	past	I	a rough summary of the results not said here	there		tree rules
4	concern	gerund	I not said here	the fable			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fable=Experiencer
5	premise	gerund	I not said here			merely property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	this results			present property	tree rules
7	exemplify		my				nom example «cognition transitive»: 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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