English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 81

His interesting book, so far as it goes, seems to throw light on tales about mermaids (Finnish women in their “kayaks,”) and trolls, but not necessarily, on fairy tales in general.

Who acts: interesting book · What happens: go, seem, throw, troll · To what, where: light, tales

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 (interesting book), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 book	nmod:poss
2	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 book	amod
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 goes	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 goes	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 goes	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 goes	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 goes	nsubj
9	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seems	punct
11	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 goes	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 throw	mark
13	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 seems	xcomp
14	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 throw	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 tales	case
16	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 throw	obl
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 mermaids	case
18	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tales	nmod
19	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 women	punct
20	Finnish	finnish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 women	amod
21	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 mermaids	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 kayaks	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 kayaks	nmod:poss
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 kayaks	punct
25	kayaks	kayak	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 throw	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 kayaks	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 kayaks	punct
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	25 kayaks	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 trolls	cc
30	trolls	troll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 seems	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 necessarily	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 necessarily	cc
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 necessarily	advmod
34	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	_	9 goes	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 tales	punct
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 tales	case
37	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 tales	compound
38	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 goes	parataxis
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 general	case
40	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 tales	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present	Sidhe's interesting book			far, necessarily property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seem	present	Sidhe's interesting book not said here				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	throw	to-infinitive	Sidhe's interesting book not said here	light	tales about mermaids and Finnish women	in tales's kayaks	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent light=Theme on tale=Destination
4	troll	present	Sidhe's interesting book not said here				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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