English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 78

Altogether it seems not improbable that in such a tale as “Childe Rowland” we have an idealised picture of a “marriage by capture” of one of the diminutive non-Aryan dwellers of the green hills with an Aryan maiden, and her re-capture by her brothers.

Who acts: it, we, capture · What happens: seem, have, idealise, marry · To what, where: re-capture, idealised picture, tale

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 (it, we, capture), 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	Altogether	altogether	ADV	_	3 seems	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seems	nsubj
3	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 improbable	advmod
5	improbable	improbable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 seems	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 have	mark
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 tale	case
8	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 tale	det:predet
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tale	det
10	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 Childe	case
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 Childe	punct
13	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 tale	nmod
14	Rowland	Rowland	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Childe	flat
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 tale	punct
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 improbable	advcl
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 picture	det
19	idealised	idealise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 picture	amod
20	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 marriage	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 marriage	det
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 marriage	punct
24	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 picture	nmod
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 capture	case
26	capture	capture	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 marriage	nmod
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 capture	punct
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 one	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 capture	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	34 dwellers	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 dwellers	det
32	diminutive	diminutive	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dwellers	compound
33	non-Aryan	non-aryan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 dwellers	amod
34	dwellers	dweller	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 one	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 hills	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 hills	det
37	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 hills	amod
38	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 dwellers	nmod
39	with	with	ADP	_	42 maiden	case
40	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 maiden	det
41	Aryan	Aryan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 maiden	amod
42	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hills	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 re-capture	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 re-capture	cc
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 re-capture	nmod:poss
46	re-capture	re-capture	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seems	obl
47	by	by	ADP	_	49 brothers	case
48	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 brothers	nmod:poss
49	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 re-capture	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seems	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	present	it	Gomme's re-capture by Gomme's brothers		altogether, improbable property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	we	a idealised picture of a marriage by capture of one of the diminutive non-Aryan dwellers of the green hills with a Aryan maiden	such tale as Childe		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Patient
3	idealise	participle					tree rules
4	marry in a quote		capture of one of the diminutive non-Aryan dwellers of the green hills with a Aryan maiden				nom marriage «state transitive»: by=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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