Indian Fairy Tales, XXII. the Boy With Moon on Forehead., sentence 7

The choice of the hero disguised as a menial is also common property of Indian and European fairy tales: see Stokes, _l. c._, p. 231, and my List of Incidents (_s. v._ "Menial Disguise.")

Who acts: choice, my · What happens: disguise, be, see, list · To what, where: hero, common property, Stokes, Incidents

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXII. the Boy With Moon on Forehead.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (choice, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 choice	det
2	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 property	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 hero	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hero	det
5	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 choice	nmod
6	disguised	disguise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hero	acl
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 menial	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 menial	det
9	menial	menial	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 disguised	obl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 property	cop
11	also	also	ADV	_	13 property	advmod
12	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 property	amod
13	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	of	of	ADP	_	19 tales	case
15	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tales	amod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 European	cc
17	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Indian	conj
18	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tales	compound
19	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 property	nmod
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
21	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 property	parataxis
22	Stokes	stoke	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 see	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 c.	punct
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	26 c.	punct
25	l.	l.	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 c.	compound
26	c.	c.	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 Stokes	appos
27	_	_	PUNCT	_	26 c.	punct
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 p.	punct
29	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Stokes	nmod
30	231	231	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 p.	flat
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 List	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 List	cc
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 List	nmod:poss
34	List	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 see	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 Incidents	case
36	Incidents	incident	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 List	nmod
37	(	(	PUNCT	_	40 v.	punct
38	_	_	ADP	_	40 v.	case
39	s.	S.	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 v.	compound
40	v.	V.	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Incidents	nmod
41	_	_	PUNCT	_	44 Disguise	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 Disguise	punct
43	Menial	menial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 Disguise	amod
44	Disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 see	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
47	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 property	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	disguise	participle		the hero not said here	as a menial	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	the choice of the hero	common property	of Indian fairy tales	tree rules
3	see	infinitive		Stokes p.	my List of Incidents _ s. v. obl; Menial Disguise obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stoke=Stimulus
4	list		my	Incidents _ s. v.		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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