English Fairy Tales, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse., sentence 30
Whether the centre of dispersion was India or not, it is impossible to say, as it might have spread east from Smyrna (Hahn, No. 56).
What happens: be, say, spread · To what, where: centre, Smyrna · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 3 centre | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 centre | det |
| 3 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 impossible | advcl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 India | case |
| 5 | dispersion | dispersion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 India | compound |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 India | cop |
| 7 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 centre | nmod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 not | cc |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 India | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 centre | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 impossible | expl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 impossible | cop |
| 13 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 say | mark |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 impossible | csubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 spread | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 spread | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 spread | aux |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 spread | aux |
| 21 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 say | ccomp |
| 22 | east | east | ADV | _ | 21 spread | advmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 Smyrna | case |
| 24 | Smyrna | Smyrna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 spread | obl |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 Hahn | punct |
| 26 | Hahn | Hahn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Smyrna | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 No. | punct |
| 28 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 26 Hahn | appos |
| 29 | 56 | 56 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 No. | flat |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 Hahn | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 impossible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | of dispersion India | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | spread | might · perfect · passive | centre | Smyrna | east property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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