Indian Fairy Tales, XII. the Charmed Ring., sentence 5
_--The incident of the Aiding Animals is frequent in folk-tales: see bibliographical references, _sub voce_, in my List of Incidents, _Trans.
Who acts: incident, my · What happens: be, see, list · To what, where: folk tales, bibliographical references, List, Incidents
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 (incident, my), 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 frequent | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 incident | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 incident | det |
| 4 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 frequent | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Animals | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Animals | det |
| 7 | Aiding | aiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Animals | compound |
| 8 | Animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 incident | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 frequent | cop |
| 10 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tales | case |
| 12 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tales | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 folk | punct |
| 14 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 frequent | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 frequent | parataxis |
| 17 | bibliographical | bibliographical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 references | amod |
| 18 | references | reference | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 see | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 voce | punct |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 voce | punct |
| 21 | sub | sub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 voce | compound |
| 22 | voce | voce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obl |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 voce | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 List | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 List | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 List | nmod:poss |
| 27 | List | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Incidents | case |
| 29 | Incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 List | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Trans | punct |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 Trans | punct |
| 32 | Trans | Tran | PROPN | Number=Plur | 27 List | appos |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 frequent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the incident of the Aiding Animals | folk tales | frequent property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | infinitive | bibliographical references | my List of Incidents | sub voce obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reference=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | list | my | Incidents | nom list «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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