Indian Fairy Tales, III. Lambikin., sentence 10
This brings the tale a stage nearer to the Lambikin.
Who acts: This · What happens: bring · To what, where: tale
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, III. Lambikin.. 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 | 2 brings | nsubj |
| 2 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tale | det |
| 4 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brings | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stage | det |
| 6 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brings | obj |
| 7 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 stage | amod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Lambikin | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Lambikin | det |
| 10 | Lambikin | Lambikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 nearer | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | This | the tale | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent tale=Destination stage=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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