English Fairy Tales, XXVII. Lazy Jack., sentence 6
The “cure by laughing” incident is “common form” in folk-tales (_cf.
Who acts: cure, cure incident · What happens: laugh, be · To what, where: common form, folk tales
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVII. Lazy Jack.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cure, cure incident), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cure | det |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cure | punct |
| 3 | cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 incident | compound |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 laughing | mark |
| 5 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 cure | acl |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cure | punct |
| 7 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 form | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 form | cop |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 form | punct |
| 10 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 form | amod |
| 11 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 form | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 tales | case |
| 14 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tales | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 folk | punct |
| 16 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 form | nmod |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 cf | punct |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 cf | punct |
| 19 | cf | cf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tales | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 form | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh in a quote | gerund | the cure not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | cure incident | common form | folk tales and cf | tree rules |
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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