English Fairy Tales, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse., sentence 31

Benfey (_Einleitung zu Pantschatantra_, i. 190-91) suggests that this class of accumulative story may be a sort of parody on the Indian stories, illustrating the moral, “what great events from small occasions rise.”

Who acts: Benfey, class, great events · What happens: suggest, be, illustrate, rise · To what, where: sort, Indian stories, moral · 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: who acts (Benfey, class, great events), 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	Benfey	Benfey	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 suggests	nsubj
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 zu	punct
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 zu	punct
4	Einleitung	Einleitung	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 zu	compound
5	zu	zu	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Benfey	appos
6	Pantschatantra	Pantschatantra	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 zu	appos
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 Pantschatantra	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 190-91	punct
9	i.	i.	X	Foreign=Yes	10 190-91	nsubj
10	190-91	190-91	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 zu	appos
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 190-91	punct
12	suggests	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 sort	mark
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 class	det
15	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sort	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 story	case
17	accumulative	accumulative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 story	amod
18	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 class	nmod
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 sort	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 sort	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sort	det
22	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 suggests	ccomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 parody	case
24	parody	parody	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sort	nmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 stories	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 stories	det
27	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stories	amod
28	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sort	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 illustrating	punct
30	illustrating	illustrate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 suggests	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 moral	det
32	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 illustrating	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 rise	punct
34	“	"	PUNCT	_	41 rise	punct
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	41 rise	obj
36	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 events	amod
37	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 rise	nsubj
38	from	from	ADP	_	40 occasions	case
39	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 occasions	amod
40	occasions	occasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 events	nmod
41	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 illustrating	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 rise	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	41 rise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present	Benfey				vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	may	this class of accumulative story	a sort	the Indian stories	of parody	tree rules
3	illustrate	gerund	Benfey not said here	the moral			vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moral=Destination
4	rise in a quote	present	great events from small occasions				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=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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