Indian Fairy Tales, V. the Broken Pot., sentence 15
_--The stories of Alnaschar, the Barber's fifth brother in the _Arabian Nights_, and of La Perette, who counted her chickens before they were hatched, in La Fontaine, are demonstrably derived from the same Indian original from which our story was obtained.
Who acts: La · What happens: count, hatch, derive, obtain · To what, where: chickens, stories, same Indian original, story
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, V. the Broken Pot.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (La), 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 | _ | 4 stories | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 stories | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stories | det |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Alnaschar | case |
| 6 | Alnaschar | Alnaschar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stories | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 brother | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Barber | det |
| 9 | Barber | Barber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Barber | case |
| 11 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 brother | amod |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Alnaschar | appos |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Nights | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Nights | det |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 Nights | punct |
| 16 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Nights | amod |
| 17 | Nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 brother | nmod |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 brother | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 derived | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 derived | cc |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 La | case |
| 22 | La | La | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 derived | obl |
| 23 | Perette | Perette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 La | flat |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 counted | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 counted | nsubj |
| 26 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 La | acl:relcl |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 chickens | nmod:poss |
| 28 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 counted | obj |
| 29 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 32 hatched | mark |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 hatched | nsubj |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 hatched | aux:pass |
| 32 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 counted | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 La | punct |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 La | case |
| 35 | La | La | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 hatched | obj |
| 36 | Fontaine | Fontaine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 La | flat |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 La | punct |
| 38 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 derived | aux:pass |
| 39 | demonstrably | demonstrably | ADV | _ | 40 derived | advmod |
| 40 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stories | acl |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 45 original | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 original | det |
| 43 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 original | amod |
| 44 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 original | amod |
| 45 | original | original | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 derived | obl |
| 46 | from | from | ADP | _ | 47 which | case |
| 47 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 obtained | obl |
| 48 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 story | nmod:poss |
| 49 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 obtained | nsubj:pass |
| 50 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 obtained | aux:pass |
| 51 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 original | acl:relcl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stories | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | past | La | La's chickens | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hatch | past · passive | chickens = chicken | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | derive | present · passive | the stories of Alnaschar not said here | the same Indian original | of La; demonstrably property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: from original=Material | |||
| 4 | obtain | past · passive | our story | the same Indian original | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from which=Source |
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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