English Fairy Tales, XXX. Mr. Miacca., sentence 4

_Parallels_.--Getting out of an ogre's clutches by playing on the simplicity of his wife, occurs in “Molly Whuppie” (No. xxii.), and its similars.

Who acts: Parallels, ogre · What happens: get out, play, occur, clutch · To what, where: clutches, simplicity, Molly

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXX. Mr. Miacca.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parallels, ogre), 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	_	5 Getting	punct
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	_	5 Getting	punct
5	Getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Parallels	acl
6	out	out	ADP	_	11 clutches	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 clutches	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ogre	det
9	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 clutches	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 ogre	case
11	clutches	clutch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Getting	obl
12	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 playing	mark
13	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 Getting	advcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 simplicity	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 simplicity	det
16	simplicity	simplicity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 playing	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 wife	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wife	nmod:poss
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 simplicity	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 occurs	punct
21	occurs	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Parallels	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 Molly	case
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 Molly	punct
24	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 occurs	obl
25	Whuppie	Whuppie	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Molly	flat
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 Molly	punct
27	(	(	PUNCT	_	29 xxii	punct
28	No.	no.	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 xxii	det
29	xxii	xxii	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Molly	appos
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 xxii	punct
31	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 xxii	punct
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 similars	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 similars	cc
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 similars	nmod:poss
35	similars	similar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Parallels	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Parallels	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	get out	gerund	Parallels and xxii's similars not said here	a ogre's clutches		tree rules
2	play	gerund	Parallels and xxii's similars not said here		the simplicity of Tommy's wife	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	occur	present			Molly	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in molly=Location
4	clutch		a ogre			nom clutch «act transitive»: poss=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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