English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 62

If, as archaeologists tell us, there was once a race of men in Northern Europe, very short and hairy, that dwelt in underground chambers artificially concealed by green hillocks, it does not seem unlikely that odd survivors of the race should have lived on after they had been conquered and nearly exterminated by Aryan invaders and should occasionally have performed something like the pranks told of fairies and trolls.

Who acts: archaeologists, race, that, it, odd survivors, pranks · What happens: tell, be, dwell, conceal, not seem, live on · To what, where: us, underground chambers, survivors, something · 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 (archaeologists, race, that, it), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 tell	mark
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 tell	mark
4	archaeologists	archaeologist	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 short	advcl
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 short	cop
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 was	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 race	det
12	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 short	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 men	case
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 race	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 Europe	case
16	Northern	Northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Europe	amod
17	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 men	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 short	punct
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 short	advmod
20	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hairy	cc
22	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 short	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dwelt	punct
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 dwelt	nsubj
25	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 short	parataxis
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 chambers	case
27	underground	underground	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 chambers	amod
28	chambers	chamber	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dwelt	obl
29	artificially	artificially	ADV	_	30 concealed	advmod
30	concealed	conceal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 chambers	acl
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 hillocks	case
32	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 hillocks	amod
33	hillocks	hillock	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 concealed	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 seem	punct
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 seem	nsubj
36	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 seem	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 seem	advmod
38	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 dwelt	conj
39	unlikely	unlikely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 seem	xcomp
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 lived	mark
41	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 survivors	amod
42	survivors	survivor	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 lived	nsubj
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 race	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 race	det
45	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 survivors	nmod
46	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 lived	aux
47	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 lived	aux
48	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 seem	advcl
49	on	on	ADP	_	48 lived	compound:prt
50	after	after	SCONJ	_	54 conquered	mark
51	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 conquered	nsubj
52	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 conquered	aux
53	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	54 conquered	aux:pass
54	conquered	conquer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 lived	advcl
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 exterminated	cc
56	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	57 exterminated	advmod
57	exterminated	exterminate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 conquered	conj
58	by	by	ADP	_	60 invaders	case
59	Aryan	Aryan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 invaders	amod
60	invaders	invader	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 exterminated	obl
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 performed	cc
62	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	65 performed	aux
63	occasionally	occasionally	ADV	_	65 performed	advmod
64	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	65 performed	aux
65	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	48 lived	conj
66	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	65 performed	obj
67	like	like	SCONJ	_	70 told	mark
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 pranks	det
69	pranks	prank	NOUN	Number=Plur	70 told	nsubj
70	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 performed	advcl
71	of	of	ADP	_	72 fairies	case
72	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	70 told	obl
73	and	and	CCONJ	_	74 trolls	cc
74	trolls	troll	NOUN	Number=Plur	72 fairies	conj
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 short	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	archaeologists		us			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
2	is	past	a race of men in Northern Europe				short property	tree rules
3	be		a race of men in Northern Europe not said here					tree rules
4	dwell	past	that			underground chambers		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chamber=Location
5	conceal	participle		underground chambers not said here			by green hillocks; artificially property	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by hillock=Location
6	not seem	present · do-support	it				unlikely property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
7	live on	should · perfect	odd survivors of the race					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	conquer	past · perfect · passive		survivors = survivor				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
9	exterminate	participle					by Aryan invaders; nearly property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
10	perform	should · perfect	odd survivors of the race not said here	something			occasionally property	vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
11	tell speech: assert	past	the pranks				of fairies and trolls	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
12	race		men in Northern Europe					nom race «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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