Indian Fairy Tales, XVII. a Lesson For Kings., sentence 5
_--This is one of the earliest of moral allegories in existence.
Who acts: _ · What happens: be · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. a Lesson For Kings.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 one | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 3 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 one | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | cop |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 earliest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 earliest | det |
| 8 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 allegories | case |
| 10 | moral | moral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 allegories | amod |
| 11 | allegories | allegory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 earliest | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 existence | case |
| 13 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 allegories | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | _ | one | of the earliest | 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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