English Fairy Tales, XXXII. the Strange Visitor, sentence 5
_Parallels_.--The man made by instalments, occurs in the Grimms' No. 4, and something like it in an English folk-tale, _The Golden Ball_, _ap.
Who acts: Parallels · What happens: make, occur · To what, where: man, something, No.
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXII. the Strange Visitor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parallels), 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 | 11 occurs | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Parallels | appos |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 man | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 instalments | case |
| 9 | instalments | instalment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 made | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 11 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 No. | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Grimms | det |
| 14 | Grimms | Grimm | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 No. | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 14 Grimms | case |
| 16 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 11 occurs | obl |
| 17 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 No. | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 something | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 something | cc |
| 20 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 occurs | obl |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 something | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 tale | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 tale | det |
| 25 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 tale | amod |
| 26 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tale | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 folk | punct |
| 28 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 occurs | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Ball | punct |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 Ball | punct |
| 31 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Ball | det |
| 32 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Ball | amod |
| 33 | Ball | Ball | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 tale | appos |
| 34 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 Ball | punct |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 ap | punct |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 37 ap | punct |
| 37 | ap | AP | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tale | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 occurs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | the man not said here | by instalments | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | occur | present | Parallels | something | the Grimms's No. | in a English folk tale and ap | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in no.=Location |
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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