English Fairy Tales, XV. Master and Pupil, sentence 6
_Parallels_.--Sorcerers' pupils seem to be generally selected for their stupidity--in folk-tales.
Who acts: Parallels · What happens: seem, select · To what, where: folk tales
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 (Parallels), 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 | 8 seem | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 7 pupils | punct |
| 5 | Sorcerers | sorcerer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pupils | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 Sorcerers | case |
| 7 | pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Parallels | conj |
| 8 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 selected | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 selected | aux:pass |
| 11 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 12 selected | advmod |
| 12 | selected | select | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 seem | xcomp |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 stupidity | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 stupidity | nmod:poss |
| 15 | stupidity | stupidity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 selected | obl |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 tales | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 tales | case |
| 18 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tales | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 folk | punct |
| 20 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 selected | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | Parallels and Sorcerers's pupils | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | select | to-infinitive · passive | Parallels and Sorcerers's pupils not said here | folk tales | for Parallels's stupidity; generally property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» |
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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