English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 52

It is indeed unlikely that the ballad itself began as continuous verse, and the _cante-fable_ is probably the protoplasm out of which both ballad and folk-tale have been differentiated, the ballad by omitting the narrative prose, the folk-tale by expanding it.

Who acts: ballad, fable _, folk tale · What happens: be, begin, differentiate, omit, expand · To what, where: protoplasm, ballad, narrative prose, prose

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 (ballad, fable _, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 unlikely	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unlikely	cop
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 unlikely	advmod
4	unlikely	unlikely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 began	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ballad	det
7	ballad	ballad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 began	nsubj
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	7 ballad	nmod:unmarked
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 unlikely	advcl
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 verse	case
11	continuous	continuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 verse	amod
12	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 began	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 protoplasm	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 protoplasm	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 _	det
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	19 fable	punct
17	cante	cante	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fable	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 cante	punct
19	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 _	compound
20	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 protoplasm	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 protoplasm	cop
22	probably	probably	ADV	_	24 protoplasm	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 protoplasm	det
24	protoplasm	protoplasm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unlikely	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	27 which	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 differentiated	obl
28	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	29 ballad	det
29	ballad	ballad	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 differentiated	nsubj:pass
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 tale	cc
31	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tale	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 folk	punct
33	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ballad	conj
34	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 differentiated	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 differentiated	aux:pass
36	differentiated	differentiate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 protoplasm	acl:relcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 ballad	punct
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 ballad	det
39	ballad	ballad	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 protoplasm	conj
40	by	by	SCONJ	_	41 omitting	mark
41	omitting	omit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 ballad	acl
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 prose	det
43	narrative	narrative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 prose	amod
44	prose	prose	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 omitting	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 tale	punct
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 tale	det
47	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 tale	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 folk	punct
49	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 protoplasm	appos
50	by	by	SCONJ	_	51 expanding	mark
51	expanding	expand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 tale	acl
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 expanding	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 unlikely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present				indeed, unlikely property	tree rules
2	begin	past	the ballad probability			as continuous verse	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is a	present	the fable _	the protoplasm and the ballad		probably property	tree rules
4	differentiate	present · perfect · passive		both ballad and folk tale	the protoplasm and the ballad		vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme
5	omit	gerund	the ballad not said here	the narrative prose			vn exclude-107.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prose=Theme
6	expand	gerund	the folk tale not said here	prose			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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