English Fairy Tales, XVIII. the Three Bears., sentence 4
_Remarks_.--“The Three Bears” is the only example I know of where a tale that can be definitely traced to a specific author has become a folk-tale.
Who acts: Remarks, I, tale · What happens: be, know, trace, become · To what, where: only example, tale, folk tale · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Remarks, I, 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Remarks | punct |
| 2 | Remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 example | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Bears | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 8 Bears | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Bears | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Bears | det |
| 7 | Three | Three | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Bears | compound |
| 8 | Bears | Bear | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 Remarks | appos |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Bears | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 example | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 example | det |
| 12 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 example | amod |
| 13 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 example | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 30 become | mark |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 become | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tale | det |
| 19 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 become | nsubj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 traced | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 traced | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 traced | aux:pass |
| 23 | definitely | definitely | ADV | _ | 24 traced | advmod |
| 24 | traced | trace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 tale | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 author | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 author | det |
| 27 | specific | specific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 author | amod |
| 28 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 traced | obl |
| 29 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 become | aux |
| 30 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 know | ccomp |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 tale | det |
| 32 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 tale | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 folk | punct |
| 34 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 become | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 example | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Remarks | the only example | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | trace | can · passive | a tale | to a specific author; definitely property | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | become | present · perfect | a tale | a folk tale | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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