English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 59
It is otherwise with the mound-traditions and their relation, if not to fairy tales in general, to tales _about_ fairies, trolls, elves, etc. These are very few in number, and generally bear the character of anecdotes.
Who acts: concern, mound traditions · What happens: be, bear · To what, where: number, character
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 (concern, mound traditions), 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 | 8 traditions | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 traditions | cop |
| 3 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 8 traditions | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 traditions | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 traditions | det |
| 6 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 traditions | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 mound | punct |
| 8 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 few | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 relation | cc |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 relation | nmod:poss |
| 11 | relation | relation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 traditions | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tales | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 tales | mark |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 tales | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 tales | case |
| 16 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tales | compound |
| 17 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 traditions | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 general | case |
| 19 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tales | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tales | punct |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 tales | case |
| 22 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 traditions | conj |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 tales | punct |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 fairies | case |
| 25 | _ | _ | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 fairies | nummod |
| 26 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 tales | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 trolls | punct |
| 28 | trolls | troll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 traditions | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 elves | punct |
| 30 | elves | elf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 traditions | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 etc. | punct |
| 32 | etc. | etc. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 8 traditions | conj |
| 33 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 traditions | nmod |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 few | cop |
| 35 | very | very | ADV | _ | 36 few | advmod |
| 36 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 number | case |
| 38 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 few | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 bear | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 bear | cc |
| 41 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 42 bear | advmod |
| 42 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 few | parataxis |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 character | det |
| 44 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 bear | obj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 anecdotes | case |
| 46 | anecdotes | anecdote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 character | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 few | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | concern | with the mound traditions and fairies's relation and fairy tales in general and tales about _ fairies and trolls and elves and etc.; These nmod; otherwise property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the mound traditions and fairies's relation and fairy tales in general and tales about _ fairies and trolls and elves and etc. | number | few property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bear | present | the character of anecdotes | generally property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=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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