English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 41
Even as remote as Zanzibar, Mr. Lang notes, the folk-tales are told as _cante-fables_.
Who acts: Lang notes · What happens: tell · To what, where: folk tales · 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 (Lang notes), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 remote | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 remote | advmod |
| 3 | remote | remote | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 Zanzibar | case |
| 5 | Zanzibar | Zanzibar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 remote | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 notes | punct |
| 7 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lang | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Lang | Lang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 notes | compound |
| 9 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Zanzibar | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tales | det |
| 12 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tales | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 folk | punct |
| 14 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 told | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 told | aux:pass |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 notes | acl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 fables | case |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 as | punct |
| 19 | cante | cante | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fables | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 cante | punct |
| 21 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 told | obl |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 remote | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | Lang notes not said here | the folk tales | as cante fables | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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