Indian Fairy Tales, IV. Punchkin., sentence 13
_--Both Mr. Clodd and Mr. Frazer regard the essence of the tale to consist in the conception of an external soul or "life-index," and they both trace in this a "survival" of savage philosophy, which they consider occurs among all men at a certain stage of culture.
Who acts: Clodd, survival · What happens: regard, consist, trace, consider, occur, conceive · To what, where: essence, conception, this, savage philosophy, certain stage, external soul
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Punchkin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clodd, survival), 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 | _ | 9 regard | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 Clodd | punct |
| 3 | Both | both | CCONJ | _ | 5 Clodd | cc:preconj |
| 4 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Clodd | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Clodd | Clodd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 regard | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Frazer | cc |
| 7 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Frazer | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Frazer | Frazer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Clodd | conj |
| 9 | regard | regard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 essence | det |
| 11 | essence | essence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 regard | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tale | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tale | det |
| 14 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 essence | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 consist | mark |
| 16 | consist | consist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 regard | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 conception | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 conception | det |
| 19 | conception | conception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 consist | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 soul | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 soul | det |
| 22 | external | external | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 soul | amod |
| 23 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 conception | nmod |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 index | cc |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 index | punct |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 index | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 life | punct |
| 28 | index | index | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 soul | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 regard | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 regard | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 trace | cc |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 trace | nsubj |
| 33 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 trace | nsubj |
| 34 | trace | trace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 occurs | advcl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 this | case |
| 36 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 trace | obl |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 survival | det |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 survival | punct |
| 39 | survival | survival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 occurs | nsubj |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 survival | punct |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 philosophy | case |
| 42 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 philosophy | amod |
| 43 | philosophy | philosophy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 survival | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 consider | punct |
| 45 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 consider | obj |
| 46 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 consider | nsubj |
| 47 | consider | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 philosophy | acl:relcl |
| 48 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 regard | parataxis |
| 49 | among | among | ADP | _ | 51 men | case |
| 50 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 51 men | det |
| 51 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 occurs | obl |
| 52 | at | at | ADP | _ | 55 stage | case |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 stage | det |
| 54 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 stage | amod |
| 55 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 occurs | obl |
| 56 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 culture | case |
| 57 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 stage | nmod |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 regard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regard | present | Clodd Mr. and Frazer Mr. | the essence of the tale | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent essence=Theme | ||||
| 2 | consist | to-infinitive | Clodd Mr. and Frazer Mr. not said here | the conception of a external soul or life index | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | trace | present | Clodd | this | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in this=Destination | ||||
| 4 | consider | present | Clodd | savage philosophy | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | occur | present | a survival of savage philosophy | a certain stage of culture | among all men | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among man=Location | |||
| 6 | conceive | a external soul or life index | nom conception «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | survive in a quote | savage philosophy | nom survival «state 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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