English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 63

Certainly the description of the Dark Tower of the King of Elfland in “Childe Rowland,” has a remarkable resemblance to the dwellings of the “good folk,” which recent excavations have revealed.

Who acts: description · What happens: have, reveal, describe · To what, where: remarkable resemblance, recent excavations, Dark Tower

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 (description), 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	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	3 description	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 description	det
3	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 has	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 Tower	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Tower	det
6	Dark	Dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Tower	compound
7	Tower	Tower	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 description	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 King	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 description	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Elfland	case
12	Elfland	Elfland	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 King	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 Childe	case
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 Childe	punct
15	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Elfland	nmod
16	Rowland	Rowland	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Childe	flat
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 description	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 description	punct
19	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 resemblance	det
21	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 resemblance	amod
22	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 has	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 dwellings	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dwellings	det
25	dwellings	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 resemblance	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 folk	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 folk	det
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 folk	punct
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 folk	amod
30	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dwellings	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dwellings	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 dwellings	punct
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 revealed	obj
34	recent	recent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 excavations	amod
35	excavations	excavation	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 revealed	nsubj:pass
36	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 revealed	aux
37	revealed	reveal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 dwellings	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	the description of the Dark Tower of the King of Elfland in Childe	a remarkable resemblance	to the dwellings of the good folk	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resemblance=Patient
2	reveal	present · perfect · passive		recent excavations		tree rules
3	describe			the Dark Tower		nom description «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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