English Fairy Tales, XXXV. the Fish and the Ring., sentence 9

Mr. Baring-Gould, who was one of the pioneers of the study of folk-tales in this country, has given a large number of instances of “the pre-ordained marriage” in folk-tales in Henderson, _l.c.

Who acts: Baring · What happens: be, give, study, instance · To what, where: one, Baring, folk tales, pre-ordained marriage

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXV. the Fish and the Ring.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baring), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Baring	nmod:desc
2	Baring	Baring	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 given	nsubj:pass
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Gould	punct
4	Gould	Gould	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Baring	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 one	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 one	cop
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 Baring	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 pioneers	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pioneers	det
11	pioneers	pioneer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 one	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 study	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 study	det
14	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pioneers	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 tales	case
16	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tales	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 folk	punct
18	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 study	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 country	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 country	det
21	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tales	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Baring	punct
23	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 given	aux
24	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 number	det
26	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 number	amod
27	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 given	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 instances	case
29	instances	instance	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 number	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	34 marriage	case
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 marriage	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 marriage	det
33	pre-ordained	pre-ordained	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 marriage	amod
34	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 instances	nmod
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	34 marriage	punct
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 tales	case
37	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 tales	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 folk	punct
39	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 marriage	nmod
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 Henderson	case
41	Henderson	Henderson	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 tales	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 l.c	punct
43	_	_	PUNCT	_	44 l.c	punct
44	l.c	l.c	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 tales	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Baring Mr. and Gould	one	of the pioneers of the study of folk tales in this country	tree rules
2	give	present · perfect · passive		Baring Mr. and Gould		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient number=Theme
3	study			folk tales in this country		nom study «act transitive»: of=patient
4	instance			the pre-ordained marriage in folk tales in Henderson and l.c		nom instance «event transitive»: of=patient

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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