Indian Fairy Tales, VII. the Cruel Crane Outwitted., sentence 13

Under these circumstances, it may be of interest to compare with Mr. Batten's conception of the Crane and the Crab (_supra_, p. 50) that of the German artist who illustrated the first edition of the Latin Bidpai, probably following the traditional representations of the MS., which itself could probably trace back to India.

Who acts: few, German artist, Batten · What happens: be, compare, illustrate, follow, trace, conceive · To what, where: first edition, traditional representations, Crane, MS.

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. the Cruel Crane Outwitted.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few, German artist, Batten), 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	Under	under	ADP	_	3 circumstances	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 circumstances	det
3	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 circumstances	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 interest	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 interest	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 interest	cop
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 interest	case
9	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 circumstances	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 compare	mark
11	compare	compare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 interest	acl
12	with	with	ADP	_	16 conception	case
13	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Batten	nmod:desc
14	Batten	Batten	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 conception	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Batten	case
16	conception	conception	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 compare	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Crane	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Crane	det
19	Crane	Crane	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 conception	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Crab	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Crab	det
22	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Crane	conj
23	(	(	PUNCT	_	25 supra	punct
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 supra	punct
25	supra	supra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Crane	parataxis
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 supra	punct
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 50	punct
28	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 50	nmod:unmarked
29	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 Crane	nmod:unmarked
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 50	punct
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 artist	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 artist	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 artist	det
34	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 artist	amod
35	artist	artist	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 conception	conj
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 illustrated	nsubj
37	illustrated	illustrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 artist	acl:relcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 edition	det
39	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	40 edition	amod
40	edition	edition	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 illustrated	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	44 Bidpai	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Bidpai	det
43	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Bidpai	compound
44	Bidpai	Bidpai	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 edition	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 following	punct
46	probably	probably	ADV	_	47 following	advmod
47	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 illustrated	advcl
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 representations	det
49	traditional	traditional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 representations	amod
50	representations	representation	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 following	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 MS.	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 MS.	det
53	MS.	MS.	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 representations	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 trace	punct
55	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 trace	obj
56	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	59 trace	nsubj
57	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 trace	aux
58	probably	probably	ADV	_	59 trace	advmod
59	trace	trace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 representations	conj
60	back	back	ADV	_	59 trace	advmod
61	to	to	ADP	_	62 India	case
62	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 back	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 circumstances	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	may	few		of interest	tree rules
2	compare	to-infinitive			with Batten Mr.'s conception of the Crane 50 p. and the Crab and the German artist	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with conception=Co-Patient
3	illustrate	past	the German artist	the first edition of the Latin Bidpai		vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edition=Destination
4	follow	gerund	the German artist not said here	the traditional representations of the MS.	probably property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent representation=Theme
5	trace	could	few	the traditional representations of the MS.	probably property	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
6	conceive		Batten Mr.	the Crane 50 p. and the Crab		nom conception «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient
7	represent			the MS.		nom representation «cognition 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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