English Fairy Tales, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse., sentence 23

_Remarks_.--These 25 variants of the same jingle scattered over the world from India to Spain, present the problem of the diffusion of folk-tales in its simplest form.

Who acts: same jingle, diffusion · What happens: scatter, present, vary, diffuse, form · To what, where: same jingle, Spain, world, problem, folk tales

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same jingle, diffusion), 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 Remarks	punct
2	Remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 variants	punct
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	_	7 variants	punct
5	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 variants	det
6	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 variants	nummod
7	variants	variant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Remarks	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 jingle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 jingle	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 jingle	amod
11	jingle	jingle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 variants	nmod
12	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 jingle	acl
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 world	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 world	det
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 scattered	obl
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 India	case
17	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 scattered	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Spain	case
19	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 scattered	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 present	punct
21	present	present	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Remarks	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 problem	det
23	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 present	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 diffusion	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 diffusion	det
26	diffusion	diffusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 problem	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 tales	case
28	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tales	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 folk	punct
30	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 diffusion	nmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 form	case
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 form	nmod:poss
33	simplest	simple	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 form	amod
34	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tales	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Remarks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	scatter	participle		the same jingle not said here	Spain	the world	from India	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over world=Destination
2	present	infinitive		the problem of the diffusion of folk tales in diffusion's simplest form				vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Theme
3	vary		the same jingle					nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent
4	diffuse			folk tales in diffusion's simplest form				nom diffusion «process transitive»: of=patient
5	form		diffusion					nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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