Indian Fairy Tales, XIX. Raja Rasalu., sentence 20
Herr Patzig is strongly for the Eastern origin of the romance, and finds its earliest appearance in the West in the Anglo-Norman troubadour, Thomas' _Lai Guirun_, where it becomes part of the Tristan cycle.
Who acts: Herr, appearance · What happens: be, find, become · To what, where: earliest appearance, West, part
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIX. Raja Rasalu.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Herr, appearance), 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 | Herr | Herr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 origin | nsubj |
| 2 | Patzig | Patzig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Herr | flat |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 origin | cop |
| 4 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 8 origin | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 origin | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 origin | det |
| 7 | Eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 origin | amod |
| 8 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 romance | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 romance | det |
| 11 | romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 origin | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 finds | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 finds | cc |
| 14 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 origin | conj |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 16 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 appearance | amod |
| 17 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 finds | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 West | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 West | det |
| 20 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 finds | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 troubadour | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 troubadour | det |
| 23 | Anglo | Anglo | X | _ | 25 Norman | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Anglo | punct |
| 25 | Norman | norman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 troubadour | amod |
| 26 | troubadour | troubadour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 finds | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Guirun | punct |
| 28 | Thomas | Thomas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Guirun | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 28 Thomas | case |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 Guirun | punct |
| 31 | Lai | Lai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Guirun | compound |
| 32 | Guirun | Guirun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 troubadour | appos |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 Guirun | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 becomes | punct |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 becomes | advmod |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 becomes | nsubj |
| 37 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 troubadour | conj |
| 38 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 becomes | xcomp |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 cycle | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 cycle | det |
| 41 | Tristan | Tristan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 cycle | compound |
| 42 | cycle | cycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 part | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 origin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Herr | for the Eastern origin; of the romance; strongly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | present | Herr not said here | romance's earliest appearance | the West | in the Norman troubadour | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Topic | ||
| 3 | become | present | appearance | part of the Tristan cycle | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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