Indian Fairy Tales, XII. the Charmed Ring., sentence 24

This contains the incident of the loss of the ring by the faithful animal, which again could not have been independently invented.

Who acts: This · What happens: contain, not invent · To what, where: incident, faithful animal

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 (This), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 contains	nsubj
2	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 incident	det
4	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contains	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 loss	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 loss	det
7	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 incident	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 ring	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ring	det
10	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 loss	nmod
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 animal	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 animal	det
13	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 animal	amod
14	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ring	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 invented	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 invented	obj
17	again	again	ADV	_	23 invented	advmod
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 invented	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 invented	advmod
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 invented	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 invented	aux:pass
22	independently	independently	ADV	_	23 invented	advmod
23	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 animal	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 contains	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contain	present	This	the incident of the loss of the ring by the faithful animal					vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot incident=Theme
2	not invent	could · perfect · passive		the faithful animal			again	independently property	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: which=Result

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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