Indian Fairy Tales, V. the Broken Pot., sentence 18
La Fontaine's version, which has rendered the fable so familiar to us all, comes from Bonaventure des Periers, _Contes et Nouvelles_, who got it from the _Dialogus Creaturarum_ of Nicholaus Pergamenus, who derived it from the _Sermones_ of Jacques de Vitry (see Prof.
Who acts: version, Bonaventure, Contes, Dialogus Creaturarum _ · What happens: render, come, de, et, get, derive · To what, where: version, Periers, Nouvelles, Dialogus Creaturarum _, Sermones _, Prof
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 (version, Bonaventure, Contes, Dialogus Creaturarum _), 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 | La | La | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 version | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Fontaine | Fontaine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 La | flat |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 La | case |
| 4 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 comes | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rendered | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 rendered | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 rendered | aux |
| 8 | rendered | render | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 version | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fable | det |
| 10 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rendered | obj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 familiar | advmod |
| 12 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rendered | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 us | case |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 familiar | obl |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 us | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 version | punct |
| 17 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 des | case |
| 19 | Bonaventure | Bonaventure | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 des | nsubj |
| 20 | des | de | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 comes | conj |
| 21 | Periers | perier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 des | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 et | punct |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 Contes | punct |
| 24 | Contes | conte | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 et | nsubj |
| 25 | et | et | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 comes | parataxis |
| 26 | Nouvelles | Nouvelles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 et | obj |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 got | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 got | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 got | nsubj |
| 30 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 et | parataxis |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 got | obj |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 _ | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 _ | det |
| 34 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 Dialogus | punct |
| 35 | Dialogus | Dialogus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 _ | compound |
| 36 | Creaturarum | Creaturarum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 _ | compound |
| 37 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 got | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Nicholaus | case |
| 39 | Nicholaus | Nicholaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 _ | nmod |
| 40 | Pergamenus | Pergamenus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Nicholaus | flat |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 derived | punct |
| 42 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 derived | nsubj |
| 43 | derived | derive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 _ | acl:relcl |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 derived | obj |
| 45 | from | from | ADP | _ | 49 _ | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 _ | det |
| 47 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 49 _ | punct |
| 48 | Sermones | Sermones | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 _ | compound |
| 49 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 derived | obl |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 Vitry | case |
| 51 | Jacques | Jacques | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 Vitry | compound |
| 52 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Jacques | flat |
| 53 | Vitry | Vitry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 _ | nmod |
| 54 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 55 see | punct |
| 55 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 got | conj |
| 56 | Prof | prof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 see | obj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | render | present · perfect · passive | La's version | familiar property | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient fable=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | present | La's version | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | de | present | Bonaventure | Periers | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | et | past | Contes | Nouvelles | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get | past | version | the Dialogus Creaturarum _ of Nicholaus | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from _=Source | ||||
| 6 | derive | past | the Dialogus Creaturarum _ of Nicholaus | version | the Sermones _ of Jacques Vitry | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent it=Result from _=Material | |||
| 7 | see | infinitive | Prof | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prof=Stimulus |
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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