English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 68
Now it is remarkable how accurately all this corresponds to the Dark Tower of “Childe Rowland,” allowing for a little idealisation on the part of the narrator.
Who acts: sky, this, Childe · What happens: be, correspond, allow
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 (sky, this, Childe), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 remarkable | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 remarkable | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 remarkable | cop |
| 4 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 accurately | advmod |
| 6 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 4 remarkable | advmod |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 corresponds | det:predet |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 corresponds | nsubj |
| 9 | corresponds | correspond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 remarkable | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Tower | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Tower | det |
| 12 | Dark | Dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Tower | compound |
| 13 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 corresponds | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Childe | case |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Childe | punct |
| 16 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Tower | nmod |
| 17 | Rowland | Rowland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Childe | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Childe | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Childe | punct |
| 20 | allowing | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 Childe | acl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 idealisation | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 idealisation | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 idealisation | amod |
| 24 | idealisation | idealisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 allowing | obl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 part | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 part | det |
| 27 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 idealisation | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 narrator | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 narrator | det |
| 30 | narrator | narrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 part | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remarkable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | sky | now | accurately, remarkable property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | correspond | present | this | to the Dark Tower of Childe | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | allow | gerund | Childe not said here | for a little idealisation on the part of the narrator goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for idealisation=Goal |
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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