Indian Fairy Tales, V. the Broken Pot., sentence 22
The theme of La Perette is of interest as showing the _literary_ transmission of tales from Orient to Occident.
Who acts: theme, interest · What happens: be, show, transmit · To what, where: literary transmission, tales
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 (theme, interest), 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 theme | det |
| 2 | theme | theme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 interest | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 La | case |
| 4 | La | La | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 theme | nmod |
| 5 | Perette | Perette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 La | flat |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 interest | cop |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 interest | case |
| 8 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 showing | mark |
| 10 | showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 interest | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 transmission | det |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 literary | punct |
| 13 | literary | literary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 transmission | amod |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 literary | punct |
| 15 | transmission | transmission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 showing | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tales | case |
| 17 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 transmission | nmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 Orient | case |
| 19 | Orient | orient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tales | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Occident | case |
| 21 | Occident | Occident | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Orient | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 interest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the theme of La | of interest | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | gerund | interest not said here | the literary transmission of tales from Orient | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent transmission=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | transmit | tales from Orient | nom transmission «act 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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