Indian Fairy Tales, X. the Soothsayer's Son., sentence 24
_--Apart from the interest of its wide travels, and its appearance in the standard mediæval History of England by Matthew Paris, the modern story shows the remarkable persistence of folk-tales in the popular mind.
Who acts: interest, modern story · What happens: travel, show · To what, where: appearance, remarkable persistence
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 (interest, modern 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 | _ | 10 travels | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 interest | punct |
| 3 | Apart | apart | ADV | _ | 6 interest | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 interest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 interest | det |
| 6 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 travels | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wide | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wide | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 interest | nmod |
| 10 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 appearance | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 appearance | cc |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 14 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 travels | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 History | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 History | det |
| 17 | standard | standard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 History | amod |
| 18 | mediæval | mediæval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 History | compound |
| 19 | History | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appearance | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 England | case |
| 21 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 History | nmod |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 Matthew | case |
| 23 | Matthew | Matthew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 travels | obl |
| 24 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Matthew | flat |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 shows | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 story | det |
| 27 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 story | amod |
| 28 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shows | nsubj |
| 29 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 Matthew | acl:relcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 persistence | det |
| 31 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 persistence | amod |
| 32 | persistence | persistence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shows | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 tales | case |
| 34 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 tales | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 folk | punct |
| 36 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 persistence | nmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 mind | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 mind | det |
| 39 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 mind | amod |
| 40 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 tales | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 travels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | present | the interest of interest's wide | interest's appearance in the standard mediæval History of England | by Matthew | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by matthew=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | show | present | the modern story | the remarkable persistence of folk tales in the popular mind | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent persistence=Recipient |
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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