English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 20

Many of the tales in this volume, as in similar collections for other European countries, are what the folklorists call Drolls.

Who acts: Many tales · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to My Dear Little May_. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many tales), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tales	amod
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 tales	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tales	det
4	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 call	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 volume	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 volume	det
7	volume	volume	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tales	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 collections	punct
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 collections	case
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 collections	case
11	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 collections	amod
12	collections	collection	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tales	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 countries	case
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 countries	amod
15	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 countries	amod
16	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 collections	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tales	punct
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 call	cop
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 call	obj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 folklorists	det
21	folklorists	folklorist	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 call	nsubj
22	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	Drolls	droll	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 call	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Many tales in this volume and similar collections for other European countries					call property	tree rules

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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