Indian Fairy Tales, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped., sentence 9
_, ii. p. 336; an Anglo-Latin one from the Middle Ages by T. Wright in _Latin Stories_ (Percy Soc.), No. 26; and for these and points of anthropological interest in the Celtic variant see Mr. Gomme's article in _Folk-Lore_, i. pp.
Who acts: Gomme · What happens: see, point, article · To what, where: article, i. pp, anthropological interest
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), 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 | _ | 3 ii | punct |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ii | punct |
| 3 | ii | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 p. | punct |
| 5 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ii | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | 336 | 336 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 p. | flat |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 9 | Anglo | Anglo | X | _ | 11 Latin | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Anglo | punct |
| 11 | Latin | Latin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | amod |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ii | appos |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 Ages | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Ages | det |
| 15 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Ages | flat |
| 16 | Ages | Age | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 Wright | case |
| 18 | T. | T. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Wright | compound |
| 19 | Wright | Wright | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 one | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Stories | case |
| 21 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Stories | compound |
| 22 | Latin | Latin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Stories | compound |
| 23 | Stories | Story | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 Wright | nmod |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 Wright | punct |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 Soc | punct |
| 26 | Percy | Percy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Soc | compound |
| 27 | Soc | Soc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Wright | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 Soc | punct |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 Soc | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 No. | punct |
| 31 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 27 Soc | conj |
| 32 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 No. | flat |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 see | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 see | cc |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 points | case |
| 36 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 38 points | det |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 points | cc |
| 38 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 see | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 interest | case |
| 40 | anthropological | anthropological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 interest | amod |
| 41 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 points | nmod |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 variant | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 variant | det |
| 44 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 variant | amod |
| 45 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 interest | nmod |
| 46 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 ii | parataxis |
| 47 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Gomme | nmod:desc |
| 48 | Gomme | Gomme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 article | nmod:poss |
| 49 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 48 Gomme | case |
| 50 | article | article | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 see | obj |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 59 pp | case |
| 52 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 59 pp | punct |
| 53 | Folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 Lore | compound |
| 54 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 53 Folk | punct |
| 55 | Lore | Lore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 59 pp | nsubj |
| 56 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 55 Lore | punct |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 pp | punct |
| 58 | i. | i. | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 59 pp | nummod |
| 59 | pp | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 article | nmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ii | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | infinitive | Gomme Mr.'s article | i. pp | for this points of anthropological interest in the Celtic variant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer article=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | point | anthropological interest in the Celtic variant | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | article | Gomme Mr. | i. pp | nom article «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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