Indian Fairy Tales, V. the Broken Pot., sentence 23

It also shows the possibility of an influence of literary on oral tradition, as is shown by our proverb, and by the fact, which Benfey mentions, that La Fontaine's story has had influence on two of Grimm's tales, Nos.

Who acts: theme, proverb, Benfey, story, Grimm · What happens: show, mention, have, tell · To what, where: possibility, fact, influence, two · Speech: someone speaks here

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, proverb, Benfey, story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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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 shows	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 shows	advmod
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 possibility	det
5	possibility	possibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 influence	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 influence	det
8	influence	influence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 possibility	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 literary	case
10	literary	literary	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 influence	nmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 tradition	case
12	oral	oral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tradition	amod
13	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 literary	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shown	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 shown	mark
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 shown	aux:pass
17	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 shows	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 proverb	case
19	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 proverb	nmod:poss
20	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shown	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fact	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fact	cc
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 fact	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fact	det
25	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shown	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 mentions	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 mentions	obj
28	Benfey	Benfey	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 mentions	nsubj
29	mentions	mention	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 fact	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 had	mark
32	La	La	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 story	nmod:poss
33	Fontaine	Fontaine	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 La	flat
34	's	's	PART	_	32 La	case
35	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	nsubj
36	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 had	aux
37	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 mentions	conj
38	influence	influence	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	obj
39	on	on	ADP	_	40 two	case
40	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 influence	nmod
41	of	of	ADP	_	44 tales	case
42	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 tales	nmod:poss
43	's	's	PART	_	42 Grimm	case
44	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 influence	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 Nos	punct
46	Nos	Nos	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 had	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	present	theme	the possibility of a influence of literary on oral tradition			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent possibility=Recipient
2	show	present · passive	our proverb				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mention speech: other	present	Benfey	the fact			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic
4	have	present · perfect	La's story	influence of Grimm's tales	two	Nos obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent influence=Patient
5	tell		Grimm				nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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