English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 32
Certainly no other folk-tale in the world can claim so distinguished an offspring.
Who acts: other folk tale · What happens: claim
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 (other folk 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 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 11 claim | advmod |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 tale | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tale | amod |
| 4 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tale | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 folk | punct |
| 6 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 claim | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tale | nmod |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 claim | aux |
| 11 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 distinguished | advmod |
| 13 | distinguished | distinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 claim | ccomp |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 offspring | det |
| 15 | offspring | offspring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 distinguished | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 claim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | can | no other folk tale in the world | certainly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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