Indian Fairy Tales, II. Princess Labam., sentence 18
_--We have here a concrete instance of the relation of Indian and European fairy-tales.
Who acts: We · What happens: have, instance · To what, where: concrete instance, relation
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. Princess Labam.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 3 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 have | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 instance | det |
| 7 | concrete | concrete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 instance | amod |
| 8 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 relation | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 relation | det |
| 11 | relation | relation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 instance | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 tales | case |
| 13 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tales | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 European | cc |
| 15 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Indian | conj |
| 16 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tales | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 fairy | punct |
| 18 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 relation | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | We | a concrete instance of the relation of Indian fairy tales | here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instance=Patient | |||
| 2 | instance | the relation of Indian fairy tales | nom instance «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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