English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 23

That some such story was current in England in Shakespeare's time, is proved by that curious _mélange_ of nursery tales, Peele's _The Old Wives' Tale_.

Who acts: That · What happens: be, prove · To what, where: England, mélange _

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 (That), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 current	nsubj
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 story	det
3	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 story	amod
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 current	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 current	cop
6	current	current	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 England	case
8	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 current	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 time	case
10	Shakespeare	Shakespeare	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 time	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Shakespeare	case
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 England	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 proved	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 proved	aux:pass
15	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 current	parataxis
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 curious	case
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 curious	nsubj
18	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 proved	obl
19	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 _	punct
20	mélange	mélange	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 _	compound
21	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 proved	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 tales	case
23	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tales	compound
24	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 _	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Peele	punct
26	Peele	Peele	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 _	nmod
27	's	's	PART	_	26 Peele	case
28	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 proved	punct
29	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Wives	det
30	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Wives	amod
31	Wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 Tale	nmod:poss
32	'	's	PART	_	31 Wives	case
33	Tale	Tale	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 current	obl
34	_	_	PUNCT	_	33 Tale	punct
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 current	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	That			England in Shakespeare's time		the Old Wives's Tale obl; current property	tree rules
2	prove	present · passive		mélange _ of nursery tales 's Peele				by curious	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»

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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