English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 51

As most of the remainder are drolls, which have probably a different origin, there seems to be great probability that originally all folk-tales of a serious character were interspersed with rhyme, and took therefore the form of the _cante-fable_.

Who acts: serious character · What happens: be, have, seem, intersperse, take, tell · To what, where: different origin, great probability, folk tales, form, fable _ · 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 (serious character), 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	As	as	ADP	_	2 most	case
2	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 drolls	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 remainder	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 remainder	det
5	remainder	remainder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 most	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 drolls	cop
7	drolls	droll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 drolls	ccomp
11	probably	probably	ADV	_	14 origin	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 origin	det
13	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 origin	amod
14	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seems	punct
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 seems	expl
17	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 drolls	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	21 probability	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 probability	cop
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 probability	amod
21	probability	probability	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seems	xcomp
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 interspersed	obj
23	originally	originally	ADV	_	24 all	advmod
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 tales	det
25	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tales	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 folk	punct
27	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 interspersed	nsubj:pass
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 character	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 character	det
30	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 character	amod
31	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tales	nmod
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 interspersed	aux:pass
33	interspersed	intersperse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 probability	acl:relcl
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 rhyme	case
35	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 interspersed	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 took	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 took	cc
38	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 drolls	parataxis
39	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	38 took	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 form	det
41	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 took	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	48 _	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 _	det
44	_	_	PUNCT	_	48 _	punct
45	cante	cante	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 fable	compound
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 cante	punct
47	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 _	compound
48	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 form	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 drolls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present				as most of the remainder; droll property	tree rules
2	have	present		a different origin			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent origin=Patient
3	seem	present			there		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is a	to-infinitive		great probability			tree rules
5	intersperse	past · passive		all folk tales of a serious character		with rhyme	tree rules
6	take	past		the form of the fable _		therefore property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
7	tell		a serious character				nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent
8	form			the fable _			nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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