Indian Fairy Tales, IV. Punchkin., sentence 23
It is difficult to imagine that we have not here the actual migration of the tale from East to West.
Who acts: tale · What happens: be, imagine, migrate
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 (tale), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 difficult | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 difficult | cop |
| 3 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 imagine | mark |
| 5 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 difficult | csubj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 imagine | obl |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 here | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 here | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 here | advmod |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 that | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 migration | det |
| 12 | actual | actual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 migration | amod |
| 13 | migration | migration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 here | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tale | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tale | det |
| 16 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 migration | nmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 East | case |
| 18 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 tale | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 West | case |
| 20 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 East | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 difficult | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | difficult property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | imagine | to-infinitive | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 3 | migrate | the tale from East to West | nom migration «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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