Indian Fairy Tales, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped., sentence 17

As a matter of fact, it is a very embarrassing addition to it, since the rhyme tells against the parent, and the story is intended to tell against the ungrateful children.

Who acts: existence, rhyme, fact · What happens: be, tell, intend, matter · To what, where: embarrassing addition, addition, story · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (existence, rhyme, fact), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 matter	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 matter	det
3	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 addition	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 fact	case
5	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 matter	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 matter	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 addition	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 addition	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 addition	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 embarrassing	advmod
11	embarrassing	embarrassing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 addition	amod
12	addition	addition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 addition	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tells	punct
16	since	since	SCONJ	_	19 tells	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rhyme	det
18	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tells	nsubj
19	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 addition	parataxis
20	against	against	ADP	_	22 parent	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 parent	det
22	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tells	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 intended	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 intended	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 story	det
26	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 intended	nsubj:pass
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 intended	aux:pass
28	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 tells	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 tell	mark
30	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 intended	xcomp
31	against	against	ADP	_	34 children	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 children	det
33	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 children	amod
34	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 tell	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 addition	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	existence	a embarrassing addition	addition	as a matter of fact	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	the rhyme			against the parent	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	intend	present · passive		the story			tree rules
4	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive				against the ungrateful children	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	matter		fact				nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=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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