English Fairy Tales, XVIII. the Three Bears., sentence 3
There is an Italian translation, _I tre Orsi_, Turin, 1868, and it would be curious to see if the tale ever acclimatises itself in Italy.
Who acts: Italian translation, translation, tale · What happens: be, see, acclimatis · To what, where: tale, Italy
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVIII. the Three Bears.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Italian translation, translation, tale), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 translation | det |
| 4 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 translation | amod |
| 5 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Orsi | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 Orsi | nsubj |
| 9 | tre | Tre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Orsi | compound |
| 10 | Orsi | Orsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 is | parataxis |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Orsi | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Turin | punct |
| 13 | Turin | Turin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Orsi | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 1868 | punct |
| 15 | 1868 | 1868 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 Orsi | list |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 curious | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 curious | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 curious | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 curious | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 curious | cop |
| 21 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 is | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 see | mark |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 curious | advcl |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 acclimatises | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tale | det |
| 26 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 acclimatises | nsubj |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 28 acclimatises | advmod |
| 28 | acclimatises | acclimatis | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | ccomp |
| 29 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 acclimatises | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 Italy | case |
| 31 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 acclimatises | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a Italian translation | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | would | translation | curious property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | translation not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | acclimatis a condition, not said to happen | present | the tale | tale | Italy | ever | 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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