English Fairy Tales, IX. Binnorie., sentence 4

_Parallels_.--The story is clearly that of Grimm's “Singing Bone” (No. 28), where one brother slays the other and buries him under a bush.

Who acts: story, one brother · What happens: be, sing, slay, bury · To what, where: that, Bone, other, brother, bush · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. Binnorie.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, one brother), 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	root	root
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 .--	punct
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	_	2 Parallels	conj
5	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 that	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 that	cop
8	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	9 that	advmod
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Parallels	conj
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 Singing	mark
11	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Singing	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Grimm	case
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 Singing	punct
14	Singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 that	advcl
15	Bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Singing	obj
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 Singing	punct
17	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 No.	punct
18	No.	no.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	14 Singing	conj
19	28	28	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 No.	flat
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 No.	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 slays	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 slays	advmod
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 brother	nummod
24	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 slays	nsubj
25	slays	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 No.	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 other	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 slays	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 buries	cc
29	buries	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 slays	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 buries	obj
31	under	under	ADP	_	33 bush	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 bush	det
33	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 buries	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Parallels	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the story	that		clearly property	tree rules
2	sing speech: express in a quote	gerund	the story not said here	Bone			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bone=Theme
3	slay	present	one brother	the other			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Patient
4	bury	present	one brother not said here	brother	a bush		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme under bush=Destination

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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