Indian Fairy Tales, IV. Punchkin., sentence 7
The mother transformed, envious stepmother, ring recognition, are all incidents common to East and West; bibliographical references for parallels may be found under these titles in my List of Incidents.
Who acts: mother, my · What happens: transform, be, find, list · To what, where: envious stepmother, incidents, bibliographical references, titles
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 (mother, my), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mother | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 transformed | nsubj |
| 3 | transformed | transform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stepmother | punct |
| 5 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stepmother | amod |
| 6 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 transformed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 recognition | punct |
| 8 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 recognition | compound |
| 9 | recognition | recognition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stepmother | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 incidents | punct |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 incidents | cop |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 incidents | advmod |
| 13 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 transformed | obl |
| 14 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 incidents | amod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 East | case |
| 16 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 common | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 West | cc |
| 18 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 East | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 found | punct |
| 20 | bibliographical | bibliographical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 references | amod |
| 21 | references | reference | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 found | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 parallels | case |
| 23 | parallels | parallel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 references | nmod |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 found | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 found | aux:pass |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 transformed | parataxis |
| 27 | under | under | ADP | _ | 29 titles | case |
| 28 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 29 titles | det |
| 29 | titles | title | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 found | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 List | case |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 List | nmod:poss |
| 32 | List | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 found | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Incidents | case |
| 34 | Incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 List | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 transformed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transform | past | the mother | envious stepmother and ring recognition | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stepmother=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | incidents | all property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | may · passive | bibliographical references for parallels | this titles | in my List of Incidents | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 4 | list | my | Incidents | nom list «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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