English Fairy Tales, XXIX. Earl Mar's Daughter., sentence 2
_Parallels_.--The lover visiting his spouse in guise of a bird, is a frequent _motif_ in folk-tales.
Who acts: lover · What happens: visit, be · To what, where: spouse, guise, frequent _ motif
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIX. Earl Mar's Daughter.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lover), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 2 | Parallels | parallel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 motif | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 20 motif | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lover | det |
| 6 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 motif | nsubj |
| 7 | visiting | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 lover | acl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 spouse | nmod:poss |
| 9 | spouse | spouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 visiting | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 guise | case |
| 11 | guise | guise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 visiting | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bird | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bird | det |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 guise | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lover | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 motif | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 motif | det |
| 18 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 motif | amod |
| 19 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 motif | compound |
| 20 | motif | motif | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Parallels | conj |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 tales | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 tales | case |
| 23 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tales | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 folk | punct |
| 25 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Parallels | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | gerund | the lover not said here | Book's spouse | guise of a bird | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spouse=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the lover | a frequent _ motif | 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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