English Fairy Tales, XI. Cap O' Rushes., sentence 4
The whole story is a version of the numerous class of Cinderella stories, the particular variety being the Catskin sub-species analogous to Perrault's _Peau d'Ane_.
Who acts: whole story, Catskin · What happens: be · To what, where: version
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XI. Cap O' Rushes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole story, Catskin), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 story | amod |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 version | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 version | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 version | det |
| 6 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 class | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 class | det |
| 9 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 class | amod |
| 10 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 version | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 stories | case |
| 12 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 stories | compound |
| 13 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 class | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 variety | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 variety | det |
| 16 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 variety | amod |
| 17 | variety | variety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sub-species | obl |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 sub-species | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Catskin | det |
| 20 | Catskin | Catskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sub-species | nsubj |
| 21 | sub-species | sub-specy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 version | acl:relcl |
| 22 | analogous | analogous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sub-species | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 d'Ane | case |
| 24 | Perrault | Perrault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 d'Ane | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Perrault | case |
| 26 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 d'Ane | compound |
| 27 | Peau | Peau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 _ | flat |
| 28 | d'Ane | d'ane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sub-species | obl |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 sub-species | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 version | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the whole story | a version | of the numerous class of Cinderella stories | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | gerund | the Catskin | a version not said here | to Perrault's _ d'Ane; the particular variety obl; analogous, sub-specy 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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