English Fairy Tales, XV. Master and Pupil, sentence 3

The mystic signs in Greek are a familiar “counting-out rhyme”: these have been studied in a monograph by Mr. H. C. Bolton; he thinks they are “survivals” of incantations.

Who acts: mystic signs, H. C., Mr., signs · What happens: be, study, think · To what, where: familiar out rhyme, these, monograph, survivals · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. Master and Pupil. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mystic signs, H. C., Mr., signs), 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 signs	det
2	mystic	mystic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 signs	amod
3	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rhyme	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Greek	case
5	Greek	Greek	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 signs	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 rhyme	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 rhyme	det
8	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rhyme	amod
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 rhyme	punct
10	counting	counting	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 out	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 counting	punct
12	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rhyme	compound
13	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 rhyme	punct
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 studied	punct
16	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 studied	nsubj:pass
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 studied	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 studied	aux:pass
19	studied	study	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 rhyme	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 monograph	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 monograph	det
22	monograph	monograph	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 studied	obl
23	by	by	ADP	_	26 C.	case
24	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 C.	nmod:desc
25	H.	H.	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 C.	compound
26	C.	C.	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 studied	obl:agent
27	Bolton	Bolton	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 C.	flat
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 thinks	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 thinks	nsubj
30	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 rhyme	parataxis
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 survivals	nsubj
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 survivals	cop
33	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 survivals	punct
34	survivals	survival	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 thinks	ccomp
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	34 survivals	punct
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 incantations	case
37	incantations	incantation	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 survivals	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 rhyme	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the mystic signs in Greek	a familiar out rhyme			tree rules
2	study	present · perfect · passive	H. C. Mr.	these	a monograph		vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
3	think speech: other	present	Mr.				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	signs = sign	survivals		of incantations	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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