Indian Fairy Tales, XXVI. the Ivory Palace., sentence 11

_--The themes of love by mirror, and the faithful friend, are common European, though the calm attempt at poisoning is perhaps characteristically Indian, and reads like a page from Mr. Kipling.

Who acts: themes, calm attempt · What happens: be, read

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVI. the Ivory Palace.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (themes, calm attempt), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 themes	punct
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 themes	punct
3	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 themes	det
4	themes	theme	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 European	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 love	case
6	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 themes	nmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 mirror	case
8	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 themes	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 friend	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 friend	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 friend	det
12	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 friend	amod
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 themes	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 themes	punct
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 European	cop
16	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 European	amod
17	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Indian	punct
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	28 Indian	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 attempt	det
21	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 attempt	amod
22	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Indian	nsubj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 poisoning	case
24	poisoning	poisoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 attempt	nmod
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 Indian	cop
26	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	28 Indian	advmod
27	characteristically	characteristically	ADV	_	28 Indian	advmod
28	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 European	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 reads	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 reads	cc
31	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 European	parataxis
32	like	like	ADP	_	34 page	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 page	det
34	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 reads	obl
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 Kipling	case
36	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Kipling	nmod:desc
37	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 page	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 European	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	the themes of love by mirror and the faithful friend	european property	tree rules
2	is	present	the calm attempt at poisoning	characteristically, indian, perhaps property	tree rules
3	read	present		like a page from Kipling Mr.	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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