English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 14

But the folk-tale parallels to our tale fade into insignificance before its brilliant literary relationships.

Who acts: tale parallels, our · What happens: fade, tell · To what, where: insignificance · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (tale parallels, our), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 fade	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 parallels	det
3	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tale	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 folk	punct
5	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 parallels	compound
6	parallels	parallel	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fade	nsubj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 tale	case
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tale	nmod:poss
9	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 parallels	nmod
10	fade	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 insignificance	case
12	insignificance	insignificance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fade	obl
13	before	before	ADP	_	17 relationships	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 relationships	nmod:poss
15	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 relationships	amod
16	literary	literary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 relationships	amod
17	relationships	relationship	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fade	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade	present	the tale parallels to our tale			insignificance	before insignificance's brilliant literary relationships		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	tell		our						nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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