English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 29

With the Folk-tale as with the Ballad, Lowland Scotch may be regarded as simply a dialect of English, and it is a mere chance whether a tale is extant in one or other, or both.

Who acts: dialect, tale · What happens: regard, be · To what, where: mere chance

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 (dialect, tale), 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	With	with	ADP	_	5 tale	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tale	det
3	Folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tale	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Folk	punct
5	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 regarded	obl
6	as	as	ADP	_	9 Ballad	case
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 Ballad	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Ballad	det
9	Ballad	Ballad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tale	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Lowland	punct
11	Lowland	Lowland	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Ballad	conj
12	Scotch	Scotch	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Lowland	flat
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 regarded	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 regarded	aux:pass
15	regarded	regard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	as	as	ADP	_	19 dialect	case
17	simply	simply	ADV	_	19 dialect	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 dialect	det
19	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 regarded	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 English	case
21	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 dialect	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 chance	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 chance	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 chance	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 chance	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 chance	det
27	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 chance	amod
28	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 regarded	obl
29	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	33 extant	mark
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 tale	det
31	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 extant	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 extant	cop
33	extant	extant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 chance	acl
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 one	case
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 extant	obl
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 other	cc
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 extant	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 both	punct
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 both	cc
40	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	15 regarded	parataxis
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 regarded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	regard	may · passive			with the Folk tale as the Ballad and Lowland; as a dialect of English	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: as dialect=Value
2	is a	present	dialect	a mere chance		tree rules
3	is	present	a tale	a mere chance not said here	in one; extant property	tree rules
4	be		a tale not said here			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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