English Fairy Tales, XVIII. the Three Bears., sentence 5

Not alone is this so, but the folk has developed the tale in a curious and instructive way, by substituting a pretty little girl with golden locks for the naughty old woman.

Who acts: folk · What happens: not be, develop, substitute · To what, where: tale, curious way, little girl

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 (folk), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 alone	advmod
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 alone	cop
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 alone	fixed
5	so	so	ADV	_	11 developed	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 developed	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 developed	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 folk	det
9	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 developed	nsubj
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 developed	aux
11	developed	develop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 alone	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tale	det
13	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 developed	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	19 way	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 way	det
16	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 way	amod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 instructive	cc
18	instructive	instructive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 curious	conj
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 developed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 substituting	punct
21	by	by	SCONJ	_	22 substituting	mark
22	substituting	substitute	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 developed	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 girl	det
24	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	25 little	advmod
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 girl	amod
26	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 substituting	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 locks	case
28	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 locks	amod
29	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 substituting	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	34 woman	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 woman	det
32	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 woman	amod
33	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 woman	amod
34	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 substituting	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 alone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present				alone property	tree rules
2	develop	present · perfect	the folk	the tale	a curious way		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Product
3	substitute	gerund	the folk not said here	a little girl		with golden locks; for the naughty old woman	vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme girl=Location with lock=Co-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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