Indian Fairy Tales, III. Lambikin., sentence 12

_--The similarity of Pig No. 3 rolling down hill in the churn and the Lambikin in the Drumikin can scarcely be accidental, though, it must be confessed, the tale has undergone considerable modification before it reached England.

Who acts: similarity, hill · What happens: roll down, be, confess, undergo, reach · To what, where: hill, churn, tale, England

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 (similarity, hill), 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	_	24 accidental	punct
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 similarity	punct
3	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 similarity	det
4	similarity	similarity	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 accidental	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 No.	case
6	Pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 No.	compound
7	No.	no.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	4 similarity	nmod
8	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 No.	flat
9	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 similarity	acl
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 rolling	compound:prt
11	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rolling	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 churn	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 churn	det
14	churn	churn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rolling	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Lambikin	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Lambikin	det
17	Lambikin	Lambikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 churn	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 Drumikin	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Drumikin	det
20	Drumikin	Drumikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Lambikin	nmod
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 accidental	aux
22	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	24 accidental	advmod
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 accidental	cop
24	accidental	accidental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 confessed	punct
26	though	though	ADV	_	31 confessed	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 confessed	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 confessed	nsubj:pass
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 confessed	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 confessed	aux:pass
31	confessed	confess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 accidental	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 undergone	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 tale	det
34	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 undergone	nsubj:pass
35	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 undergone	aux
36	undergone	undergo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 confessed	conj
37	considerable	considerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 modification	amod
38	modification	modification	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 undergone	obj
39	before	before	SCONJ	_	41 reached	mark
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 reached	nsubj
41	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 undergone	advcl
42	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 reached	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 accidental	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	roll down	gerund	the similarity of Pig No. not said here	hill	the churn and the Lambikin in the Drumikin		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hill=Theme in churn=Trajectory
2	is	can	the similarity of Pig No.			accidental, scarcely property	tree rules
3	confess	must · passive		hill		though property	vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	undergo	present · perfect · passive		the tale			tree rules
5	reach	past	hill	England			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent england=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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