Indian Fairy Tales, VI. the Magic Fiddle., sentence 18

Unfortunately, the form in which it occurs is mutilated, and we cannot draw any definite conclusion from it.

Who acts: form, we · What happens: occur, mutilate, not draw · To what, where: form, definite conclusion

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. the Magic Fiddle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (form, we), 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	Unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	_	10 mutilated	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Unfortunately	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 form	det
4	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mutilated	nsubj:pass
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 occurs	obl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 occurs	nsubj
8	occurs	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 form	acl:relcl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 mutilated	aux:pass
10	mutilated	mutilate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 draw	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 draw	cc
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 draw	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 draw	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 draw	advmod
16	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 mutilated	conj
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 conclusion	det
18	definite	definite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 conclusion	amod
19	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 draw	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 draw	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 mutilated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	occur	present	form		the form		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in which=Location
2	mutilate	present · passive		the form		unfortunately property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	not draw	can	we	any definite conclusion	form		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent conclusion=Theme from it=Initial_Location

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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