Indian Fairy Tales, XII. the Charmed Ring., sentence 23
The English variant was derived from an English Gipsy, and suggests the possibility that for this particular story the medium of transmission has been the Gipsies.
Who acts: medium · What happens: derive, suggest, be · To what, where: English variant, English Gipsy, possibility, Gipsies
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XII. the Charmed Ring.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (medium), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 variant | det |
| 2 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 variant | amod |
| 3 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 derived | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 derived | aux:pass |
| 5 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Gipsy | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Gipsy | det |
| 8 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Gipsy | amod |
| 9 | Gipsy | gipsy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 derived | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 suggests | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 suggests | cc |
| 12 | suggests | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 derived | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 possibility | det |
| 14 | possibility | possibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 suggests | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 possibility | dep |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 story | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 story | det |
| 18 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 story | amod |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 suggests | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 medium | det |
| 21 | medium | medium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Gipsies | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 transmission | case |
| 23 | transmission | transmission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 medium | nmod |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 Gipsies | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 Gipsies | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Gipsies | det |
| 27 | Gipsies | gipsy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 story | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 derived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derive | past · passive | the English variant | a English Gipsy | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from gipsy=Material | ||||
| 2 | suggest speech: suggest | present | the possibility | for this particular story | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent possibility=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a | present · perfect | the medium of transmission | the Gipsies | 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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