English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 13
The taboo against taking food in the underworld occurs in the myth of Proserpine, and is also frequent in folk-tales (Child, i. 322).
Who acts: taboo · What happens: take, occur, be · To what, where: food, underworld, myth, folk tales
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (taboo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 taboo | det |
| 2 | taboo | taboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 occurs | nsubj |
| 3 | against | against | SCONJ | _ | 4 taking | mark |
| 4 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 taboo | acl |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taking | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 underworld | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 underworld | det |
| 8 | underworld | underworld | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taking | obl |
| 9 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 myth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 myth | det |
| 12 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 occurs | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Proserpine | case |
| 14 | Proserpine | Proserpine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 myth | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 frequent | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 frequent | cc |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 frequent | cop |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 frequent | advmod |
| 19 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 occurs | parataxis |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 tales | case |
| 21 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tales | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 folk | punct |
| 23 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 frequent | obl |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 Child | punct |
| 25 | Child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tales | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 322 | punct |
| 27 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 28 322 | nsubj |
| 28 | 322 | 322 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 Child | appos |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 322 | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 occurs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | the taboo not said here | food | the underworld | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Value in underworld=Location | |||
| 2 | occur | present | the taboo | the myth of Proserpine | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in myth=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | folk tales and Child | frequent property | 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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