Indian Fairy Tales, VI. the Magic Fiddle., sentence 9
It is obvious, however, that neither version contains the real finish of the story, which must have contained the denunciation of the magic fiddle of the murderous sisters.
Who acts: story, version · What happens: be, contain · To what, where: real finish
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 (story, version), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 obvious | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 obvious | cop |
| 3 | obvious | obvious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 3 obvious | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 contains | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 contains | mark |
| 8 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 version | det |
| 9 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 contains | nsubj |
| 10 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 obvious | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 finish | det |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 finish | amod |
| 13 | finish | finish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 contains | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 story | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 story | det |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 finish | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 contained | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 contained | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 contained | aux |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 contained | aux |
| 21 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 finish | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 denunciation | det |
| 23 | denunciation | denunciation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 contained | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 fiddle | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fiddle | det |
| 26 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fiddle | amod |
| 27 | fiddle | fiddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 denunciation | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 sisters | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sisters | det |
| 30 | murderous | murderous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 sisters | amod |
| 31 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 fiddle | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obvious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | story | however, obvious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | contain | present | neither version | the real finish of the story | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot finish=Theme | ||||
| 3 | contain | must · perfect · passive | the real finish of the story | tree rules |
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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