Indian Fairy Tales, XVI. the Son of Seven Queens., sentence 25

It is thus probable, though M. Cosquin does not point this out, that the "envious step-mother" of folk-tales (see my List, _s. v._) was originally an envious co-wife.

Who acts: No., M., folk tales, s., my · What happens: be, not point out, see, list · To what, where: this, List, envious co-wife

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Son of Seven Queens.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (No., M., folk tales, s.), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 probable	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 probable	cop
3	thus	thus	ADV	_	4 probable	advmod
4	probable	probable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 point	punct
6	though	though	SCONJ	_	11 point	mark
7	M.	M.	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 point	nsubj
8	Cosquin	Cosquin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 M.	flat
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 point	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 point	advmod
11	point	point	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 probable	conj
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 point	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	11 point	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 mother	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 mother	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mother	det
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 mother	punct
18	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mother	amod
19	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mother	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 step	punct
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 point	obl
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 mother	punct
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 tales	case
24	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tales	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 folk	punct
26	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 mother	nmod
27	(	(	PUNCT	_	28 see	punct
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 tales	acl
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 List	nmod:poss
30	List	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 see	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 see	punct
32	_	_	PUNCT	_	41 co-wife	punct
33	s.	S.	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 co-wife	nsubj
34	v.	V.	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 s.	flat
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	33 s.	punct
36	)	)	PUNCT	_	33 s.	punct
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 co-wife	cop
38	originally	originally	ADV	_	41 co-wife	advmod
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 co-wife	det
40	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 co-wife	amod
41	co-wife	co-wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 point	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 probable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	No.		probable, thus property	tree rules
2	not point out	present · do-support	M.	this	the envious step mother of folk tales obl	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient
3	see	infinitive	folk tales not said here	my List		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer list=Stimulus
4	is a	past	s.	a envious co-wife	originally property	tree rules
5	list		my			nom list «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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