Indian Fairy Tales, XXIV. Why the Fish Laughed., sentence 24
_), has shown the wide spread of the theme both in early Indian literature (though probably there derived from the folk) and in modern European folk literature.
What happens: show, derive, spread · To what, where: wide spread, folk, theme
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Why the Fish Laughed.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 shown | punct |
| 2 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 shown | punct |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shown | aux |
| 5 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spread | det |
| 7 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spread | amod |
| 8 | spread | spread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shown | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 theme | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 theme | det |
| 11 | theme | theme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spread | nmod |
| 12 | both | both | ADV | _ | 5 shown | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 literature | case |
| 14 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 literature | amod |
| 15 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 literature | amod |
| 16 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 both | obl |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 derived | punct |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 derived | mark |
| 19 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 20 there | advmod |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 derived | advmod |
| 21 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 shown | conj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 folk | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 folk | det |
| 24 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 derived | obl |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 derived | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 literature | cc |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 literature | case |
| 28 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 literature | amod |
| 29 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 literature | amod |
| 30 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 literature | compound |
| 31 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 derived | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · perfect | the wide spread of the theme | both property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent spread=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | derive | participle | the folk; there | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from folk=Material | |||||
| 3 | spread | the theme | nom spread «event transitive»: 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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