English Fairy Tales, XXXIV. Cat and Mouse., sentence 3

It is curious that a very similar “run” is added by Bengali women at the end of every folk-tale they tell (Lal Behari Day, _Folk Tales of Bengal_, Pref.

Who acts: iv, Bengali women, Woman · What happens: be, add, tell · To what, where: similar run, end, Folk Tales · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (iv, Bengali women, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 curious	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 curious	cop
3	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 added	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 run	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 similar	advmod
7	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 run	amod
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 run	punct
9	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 added	nsubj:pass
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 run	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 added	aux:pass
12	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 tell	advcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 women	case
14	Bengali	Bengali	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 women	compound
15	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 added	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 end	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 end	det
18	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 added	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 tale	case
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 tale	det
21	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tale	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 folk	punct
23	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 end	nmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tell	nsubj
25	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 curious	parataxis
26	(	(	PUNCT	_	29 Day	punct
27	Lal	Lal	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Day	compound
28	Behari	Behari	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Lal	flat
29	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 tell	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Tales	punct
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	33 Tales	punct
32	Folk	folk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Tales	amod
33	Tales	Tale	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 tell	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 Bengal	case
35	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Tales	nmod
36	_	_	PUNCT	_	33 Tales	punct
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Pref	punct
38	Pref	Pref	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Tales	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 curious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	iv				curious property	tree rules
2	add speech: assert	present · passive	Bengali women	a similar run		at the end of every folk tale		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	present	Woman		Folk Tales of Bengal Pref			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient

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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