Indian Fairy Tales, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped., sentence 12
_--Mr. Gomme is of opinion that the tale arose from certain rhyming formulæ occurring in the Gaelic and Latin tales as written on a mallet left by the old man in the box opened after his death.
Who acts: Gomme, tale, certain rhyming formulæ, opinion · What happens: be, arise, rhyme, occur, write, leave · To what, where: certain rhyming formulæ, Gaelic tales, mallet, box
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gomme, tale, certain rhyming formulæ, opinion), 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 | _ | 36 opened | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 opinion | punct |
| 3 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Gomme | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Gomme | Gomme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 opinion | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 opinion | cop |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 opinion | case |
| 7 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 opened | nsubj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 arose | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tale | det |
| 10 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 arose | nsubj |
| 11 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 opinion | advcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 formulæ | case |
| 13 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 formulæ | amod |
| 14 | rhyming | rhyme | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 formulæ | amod |
| 15 | formulæ | formulæ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 arose | obl |
| 16 | occurring | occur | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 formulæ | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 tales | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tales | det |
| 19 | Gaelic | gaelic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tales | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Latin | cc |
| 21 | Latin | Latin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Gaelic | conj |
| 22 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 occurring | obl |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 written | mark |
| 24 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 tales | acl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 mallet | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 mallet | det |
| 27 | mallet | mallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 written | obl |
| 28 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 mallet | acl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 man | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 man | det |
| 31 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 man | amod |
| 32 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 left | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 box | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 box | det |
| 35 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 left | obl |
| 36 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 37 | after | after | ADP | _ | 39 death | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 death | nmod:poss |
| 39 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 opened | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Gomme Mr. | of opinion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | arise | past | the tale | certain rhyming formulæ | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rhyme | gerund | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | occur | gerund | certain rhyming formulæ not said here | the Gaelic tales | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in tale=Location | ||||
| 5 | write | participle | the Gaelic tales not said here | a mallet | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on mallet=Destination | ||||
| 6 | leave | participle | a mallet not said here | in the box result; by the old man | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in box=Result | ||||
| 7 | open | past | opinion | after opinion's death | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | die | opinion | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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