Indian Fairy Tales, XIV. Lac of Rupees., sentence 11

_--It is indeed curious to find the story better told in Cornwall than in the land of its birth, but there can be little doubt that the Buddhist version is the earliest and original form of the story.

Who acts: Pop, little doubt, Buddhist version · What happens: be, find, tell · To what, where: story, Cornwall, earliest original form · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIV. Lac of Rupees.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pop, little doubt, Buddhist version), 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	_	6 curious	punct
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 curious	punct
3	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 curious	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 curious	cop
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 curious	advmod
6	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 find	mark
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 curious	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obj
11	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 told	advmod
12	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 story	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Cornwall	case
14	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 told	obl
15	than	than	ADP	_	18 land	case
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 land	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 land	det
18	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 birth	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 birth	nmod:poss
21	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 land	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 be	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 be	cc
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 be	expl
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 be	aux
26	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 curious	conj
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 doubt	amod
28	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 be	nsubj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 form	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 version	det
31	Buddhist	Buddhist	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 version	compound
32	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 form	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 form	cop
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 form	det
35	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 form	amod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 form	cc
37	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 form	amod
38	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 doubt	appos
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 story	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 story	det
41	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 form	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 curious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Pop			curious, indeed property	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	Pop not said here	the story			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	participle		the story not said here	Cornwall	than the land of Pop's birth; well property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	can	can	little doubt		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	present	the Buddhist version	the earliest original form		of the story	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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