English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 61

All such things may have happened and bear no such _à priori_ marks of impossibility as speaking animals, flying through the air, and similar incidents of the folk-tale pure and simple.

What happens: happen, bear, speak, fly, mark · To what, where: such things, such priori, animals, air, impossibility · 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: 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 things	det
2	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 things	amod
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 happened	nsubj:pass
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 happened	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 happened	aux
6	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bear	cc
8	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 happened	conj
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 priori	det
10	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 priori	amod
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 priori	punct
12	à	à	ADP	_	13 priori	case
13	priori	priori	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bear	obj
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 marks	punct
15	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bear	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 impossibility	case
17	impossibility	impossibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 marks	nmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 speaking	mark
19	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 bear	advcl
20	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 speaking	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 flying	punct
22	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 speaking	conj
23	through	through	ADP	_	25 air	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 air	det
25	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flying	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 pure	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 pure	cc
28	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 incidents	amod
29	incidents	incident	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 pure	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	34 tale	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 tale	det
32	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tale	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 folk	punct
34	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 incidents	nmod
35	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 happened	parataxis
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 simple	cc
37	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 pure	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	may · perfect · passive	all such things			tree rules
2	bear	infinitive	no such priori		marks of impossibility obl	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priori=Patient
3	speak speech: other	gerund	animals			tree rules
4	fly	gerund		the air		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location
5	mark		impossibility			nom mark «cognition 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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