Indian Fairy Tales, I. the Lion and the Crane., sentence 25

This would give them an age of over two thousand years, nearly three hundred years earlier than Phædrus, from whom comes our _Wolf and Crane_.

Who acts: This · What happens: give, come · To what, where: age, verses, _ Wolf

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 (This), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 give	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 age	det
6	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 years	case
8	over	over	ADV	_	10 thousand	advmod
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 thousand	compound
10	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 age	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 years	punct
13	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	15 hundred	advmod
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 hundred	compound
15	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 earlier	obl:unmarked
17	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 give	advmod
18	than	than	ADP	_	19 Phædrus	case
19	Phædrus	Phædrus	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 earlier	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 comes	punct
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 whom	case
22	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 comes	nsubj
23	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 give	parataxis
24	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 Wolf	nmod:poss
25	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Wolf	amod
26	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 comes	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 Crane	cc
28	Crane	Crane	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Wolf	conj
29	_	_	PUNCT	_	23 comes	punct
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	This	a age of thousand years	verses = verse			early property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient age=Theme
2	come	present		our _ Wolf and Crane					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wolf=Theme

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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