Indian Fairy Tales, X. the Soothsayer's Son., sentence 12
_ The story of the ingratitude of man compared with the gratitude of beasts came early to the West, where it occurs in the _Gesta Romanorum_, c. 119.
Who acts: story · What happens: compare, come, occur · To what, where: man, West, Gesta c.
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, X. the Soothsayer's Son.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ingratitude | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ingratitude | det |
| 6 | ingratitude | ingratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 story | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ingratitude | nmod |
| 9 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 man | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 gratitude | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gratitude | det |
| 12 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 compared | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 beasts | case |
| 14 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gratitude | nmod |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 West | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 West | det |
| 19 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 occurs | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 occurs | advmod |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 occurs | nsubj |
| 23 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | parataxis |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 c. | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 c. | det |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 31 c. | punct |
| 27 | Gesta | Gesta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 c. | compound |
| 28 | Romanorum | Romanorum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Gesta | flat |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 Gesta | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 c. | punct |
| 31 | c. | c. | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 occurs | obl |
| 32 | 119 | 119 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 c. | flat |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | participle | man not said here | with the gratitude of beasts | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with gratitude=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the story of the ingratitude of man | the West | early property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to west=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | occur | present | story | the Gesta c. | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in c.=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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