English Fairy Tales, XXXIV. Cat and Mouse., sentence 2

_Parallels_.--Scarcely more than a variant of the “Old Woman and her Pig” (No. iv.), which see.

Who acts: Parallels, Old Woman · What happens: see, vary

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXIV. Cat and Mouse.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parallels, Old Woman), 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	26 see	nsubj
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Parallels	punct
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	_	6 more	punct
5	Scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 Parallels	acl:relcl
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 variant	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 variant	det
9	variant	variant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 more	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 Woman	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Woman	det
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 Woman	punct
13	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Woman	amod
14	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 variant	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Pig	cc
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 Pig	nmod:poss
17	Pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Woman	conj
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 variant	punct
19	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 iv	punct
20	No.	no.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	21 iv	compound
21	iv	iv	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 variant	appos
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 iv	punct
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 iv	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 see	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 see	nsubj
26	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Parallels						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	vary		the Old Woman and p.'s Pig						nom variant «event intransitive»: of=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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