English Fairy Tales, VII. Nix Nought Nothing., sentence 5

_Parallels_.--Mr. Lang, in the essay “A Far-travelled Tale” in which he gives the story, mentions several variants of it, including the classical myth of Jason and Medea.

Who acts: Parallels, tale, several variants, story · What happens: travel, give, mention, vary · To what, where: Tale, story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. Nix Nought Nothing.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parallels, tale, several variants, story), 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	_	2 Parallels	punct
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 travelled	nsubj
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Parallels	punct
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	_	2 Parallels	punct
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Lang	nmod:desc
6	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Parallels	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 essay	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 essay	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 essay	det
10	essay	essay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Parallels	conj
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 travelled	punct
12	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 travelled	det
13	Far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 travelled	advcl
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Far	punct
15	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	Tale	Tale	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 travelled	obj
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 travelled	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 gives	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gives	nsubj
21	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 travelled	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 story	det
23	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gives	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mentions	punct
25	mentions	mention	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 gives	conj
26	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 variants	amod
27	variants	variant	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 mentions	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 variants	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 myth	punct
31	including	including	ADP	_	34 myth	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 myth	det
33	classical	classical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 myth	amod
34	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mentions	parataxis
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 Jason	case
36	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 myth	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 Medea	cc
38	Medea	Medea	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Jason	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	travel in a quote	past	Parallels Lang Mr. and the essay	Tale	tree rules
2	give	present	tale	the story	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme
3	mention speech: other	present	several variants of story		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	vary		story		nom variant «event 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: «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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