English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 31

There are certain indications that the “common form” of the English Fairy Tale was the _cante-fable_, a mixture of narrative and verse of which the most illustrious example in literature is “Aucassin et Nicolette.”

Who acts: certain indications, Aucassin · What happens: be, form · To what, where: fable _ · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (certain indications, Aucassin), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 indications	amod
4	indications	indication	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 form	nsubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 form	det
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 form	punct
8	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 form	amod
9	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 indications	acl:relcl
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 form	punct
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 Tale	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Tale	det
13	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Fairy	compound
14	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Tale	compound
15	Tale	Tale	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 _	obl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 _	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 _	det
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 _	punct
19	cante	cante	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fable	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 cante	punct
21	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 _	compound
22	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 form	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mixture	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 mixture	det
25	mixture	mixture	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 _	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 narrative	case
27	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mixture	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 verse	cc
29	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 _	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 et	obl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 example	det
33	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	34 illustrious	advmod
34	illustrious	illustrious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 example	amod
35	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 et	ccomp
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 literature	case
37	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 example	nmod
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 et	cop
39	“	"	PUNCT	_	41 et	punct
40	Aucassin	Aucassin	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 et	nsubj
41	et	et	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 verse	acl:relcl
42	Nicolette	Nicolette	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 et	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 _	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 form	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	certain indications		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	form in a quote		certain indications				tree rules
3	is a	past		the fable _ and a mixture of narrative and verse		of the Fairy Tale	tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	Aucassin			of verse; et 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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